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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Substitue 'Special Characters' in VI Post 302328567 by ScKaSx on Wednesday 24th of June 2009 03:52:14 PM
Old 06-24-2009
Substitue 'Special Characters' in VI
Hi All,

I am using LATEX and need to delete all the lines in a file matching:
\begin{work}

I know there are several ways to do this, but I am trying to do it with the substitute command in VI. The problem is I can't get substitute to recognize the character '\'!

How do I do it?

Currently I am trying
Code:
:%s/\([\begin{work}]\)/ /g

Thanks in advance, cheers.
 

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latex

LATEX(1)						      General Commands Manual							  LATEX(1)

NAME

       latex, elatex, lambda, pdflatex - structured text formatting and typesetting

SYNOPSIS

       latex [ first line ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.	The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
       Web2C: A TeX implementation.

       The LaTeX language is described in the book LaTeX - A Document Preparation System.  LaTeX is a TeX macro package, not a modification to the
       TeX source program, so all the capabilities described in tex(1) are present.

       The LaTeX macros encourage writers to think about the content of their documents, rather than the form.	The ideal, very difficult to real-
       ize, is to have no formatting commands (like ``switch to italic'' or ``skip 2 picas'') in the document at all; instead, everything is  done
       by specific markup instructions: ``emphasize'', ``start a section''.

       The  primary  source  of  documentation	for LaTeX is the LaTeX manual referenced below, and the local guide in the file local-guide.tex or
       local.tex or some such.

       elatex is the e-TX extended mode version of LaTeX format.

       lambda is the Omega version of the LaTeX format.

       pdflatex is the pdfTeX version of the LaTeX format.

       On some systems latex209 and slitex are available for compatibility with older versions of LaTeX.  These should not be used for new texts.

SEE ALSO

       amslatex(1), amstex(1), tex(1),
       Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.

Web2C 7.3.1							   29 March 1999							  LATEX(1)
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