Re: How to search a "path" string in a file?

Hi Jerry!

On Di, 31 Jan 2012, Jerry Dai wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a file with a lot of path in it. I want to search
> "/home/user/bin/session.log" without changing "/" to "\/".
> How should I do it?

You can at least use ? to search backwards, which does not care about /
delimiting the pattern, or if you have at least a normal built, you can
simply paste the pattern into the search register:
:let @/='/home/user/bin/session.log'
and press n.

I should possibly put this into the faq.

regards,
Christian
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