[wellylug] vi(m) question.

[Kevin Dorne]

On 9/05/2004, at 8:22, Grant McLean wrote:
> But in Vim (for reasons I've never quite understood), we use the backslash to make characters special rather than not special.

You know, it's funny, I've been using regex in Vim for a very long time now, and while I've basically memorised its quirks (having to precede parentheses with a backslash to "enable" them), I've always found it counterintuitive.  That little statement above just made it all make sense.  Thank you *so* very much!

heh.
-k
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