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Old 12-10-2004
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I'm not too sure that I follow - but you can supress the interpretation of metacharacters by backslash escaping them...

e.g.

Code:
:%s/^.*my_patter_has_special_chars\*\/\$\^_in_it.*$//

As you can see, the .* at the beginning and end of line are still treated as metacharacters (as are the anchors).

Cheers
ZB