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		mooreds on May 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intermediate Vim How do you escape the & character? I have been bit by this (not escaping &) a few times but never enough to have found the answer.

Asooka on May 1, 2019 [–]

The same way you escape anything - with a \. E.g. if you wanted to substitute the character x with the sequence &/\ you would type

:s/x/\&\/\\

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