> On 04/03/2011 12:46 PM, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
>
> > I've just had some very frustrating minutes trying to figure out why
> > searching with a pattern which I felt should work wasn't actually
> > working. After trying this and that I decided eventually to look up
> > \? in the help file and saw that it's not supposed to work with
> > backwards searches. Does anyone know why this restriction exists ?
> > Seems like a strange one.
>
> Prefixed by the slash, it searches for a literal question-mark.
> Without the prefixing slash, it terminates the search-re portion
> of the query and delineates the flags (":help search-offset")
> that are expected to follow.
Cheers, I see now.
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