How to use an alternate character other than '/' in a vim search (NOT search and replace)?

Asked Dec 07 '15 at 21:48

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I want to do a search and find something that I'm pasting in with a lot of / characters. I would rather not have to escape every one of them as it is a PITA.

Is there some way of doing this? In perl I'd just use m#blah#, but the m prefix doesn't seem to work in vim.

NOTE: I'm not wanting to escape the entire search string, just not use the / as a match delimiter.

edited Dec 07 '15 at 22:00

asked Dec 07 '15 at 21:48

Adrian

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See also http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_without_need_to_escape_slash – Michael Berkowski Dec 07 '15 at 21:54
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Here's another one [with a more straightforward answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16554010/vim-how-to-search-for-url) – Michael Berkowski Dec 07 '15 at 21:55
@MichaelBerkowski, your 2nd and 3rd comments are the answers I was looking for. Post it and I'll give you credit. – Adrian Dec 07 '15 at 21:59
This will get linked as a duplicate to that one. It's not appropriate for me to lift the answer - you should upvote all of them over there instead – Michael Berkowski Dec 07 '15 at 22:01
@MichaelBerkowski, oh yeah, true. How to mark as duplicate of 3rd comment? – Adrian Dec 07 '15 at 22:02
@MichaelBerkowski Ok, I voted to close based on your 3rd comment. That or I can delete this question. – Adrian Dec 07 '15 at 22:05
With no upvoted answers, I think you can delete it, but the dupe link is actually helpful for others searching – Michael Berkowski Dec 07 '15 at 22:06

How to use an alternate character other than '/' in a vim search (NOT search and replace)?

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