Searching for backslash character in vim

Question

How to search word start \word in vim. I can do it using the find menu. Is there any other short cut for this?

Answer 1

Try /\\word in command mode.

This works because, to escape a special character, we precede it with a backslash (\). Since \ is a special character (and one you want to actually search for), we escape it with backslash.

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