On 2013–01–10 Christian Brabandt wrote: > > If I run /\\bar in normal mode this works. What is wrong with this > > and how do I rewrite the search so that \bar is found including the > > backslash? > > You are searching for "\b"ar, where \b translates to the backspace char. > This is described at :h expr-string.
This only explains the need to escape a backslash with a backslash,
not the need for double-escaping. And I didn't find the information
either in :h normal or :h execute. I assume the reason is that the
string is parsed twice and escaping needs to be done once for each
step.
> You want either to use :exe 'norm! /\\bar'."\n" or
> :exe "norm! /\\\\bar\n"
^^^^
That's what I call extreme escaping ;)
Thanks Christian and Andy, your solutions work fine.
Marco
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