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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help with search and replace or search only of / in vi Post 302630393 by newbie_01 on Wednesday 25th of April 2012 07:15:21 PM
Old 04-25-2012
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Originally Posted by zaxxon
I usually escape them, but you could start from the end of the file using ? to initiate a search (so hit [shift+g] to get to the end first). It doesn't need slashes to be escaped this way.

Thanks for your tip. Tried it and it sure doesn't require escaping searching backward.

Am happy with that as a workaround for the time being.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

tntnet-config

TNTNET-CONFIG(1)					      General Commands Manual						  TNTNET-CONFIG(1)

NAME

       tntnet-config - output compiler flags for tntnet usage

SYNOPSIS

       tntnet-config [--libs] [--cxxflags] [--config[=app]] [--makefile[=app]] [--project=app] [--autoproject=app] [--help] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the tntnet-config command.

OPTIONS

       This program's options start with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included below.

       --libs Output linker flags.

       --cxxflags
	      Output C++ preprocessor and compiler flags.

       --config[=app]
	      Print default configuration file.

       --makefile[=app]
	      Print a simple makefile for an ecpp project.

       --project=app
	      Create a simple ecpp project directory.

       --autoproject=app
	      Create a autotools based ecpp project.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --version
	      Show version of program.

AUTHOR

       tntnet was written by Tommi Makitalo <tommi@tntnet.org>.

       This manual page was written by Kari Pahula <kaol@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       tntnet(8), ecppc(1), ecppl(1), ecppll(1).
       More documentation can be found in /usr/share/doc/tntnet-doc/.

								   July  3, 2006						  TNTNET-CONFIG(1)
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