> On 2020-10-11, Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 21:09:26 -0000 (UTC)
> > Lifepillar <lifepillar@lifepillar.me> wrote:
> >
> >> How can I grep text with a special symbol, such as #?
> >
> > Either:
> >
> > :grep \\#p
> >
> > Or:
> >
> > :grep '\#p'
> >
> > Seem to work here in gvim (Linux; shell is either bash or zsh).
>
> That does it! Double-escaping is always tricking me.
You can use any special character to surround the pattern, it's a lot
easier than escaping. I often use ":grep /pattern/ *", unless the
pattern contains a slash.
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