> Supose I want to write a Vim tutorial, in which I have written many
> times something like:
>
> :%s#/\*(.*)\*/#//\1#g
>
> And now I want to replace that by some other command. Using "\"
> to indicate every sepecial character can be very cumbersome. Is
> there an more direct way to do this, lets say, such as
>
> s/{:%s#/\*(.*)\*/#//\1#g}/something else/
>
> In this case I've put the {...} to indicate that I want to replace
> exactly
> that. Of course this don't work. Is there some similar alternative to
> general replacements of exact strings without bothering if some
> character is special or not?
You may be interested both in the 'magic' setting, and the
optional search atoms to control it ("\V" and family).
:help /magic
:help 'magic'
-tim
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