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I am using the line search of FuzzyFinder in Vim. I am trying to find lines that contains two asterisks (**). Obviously asteriks are use for pattern matching so I tried backslash escaping, but that doesn't work. How can I do that?

milarepa
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  • What backslash escaping did you try? – romainl Aug 03 '13 at 15:01
  • Can you write your command? and sample of what you need to find? – Hossein Nasr Aug 03 '13 at 15:48
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    I used the '\' to escape the asteriks. Basically I wrote comments on a long configuration file, e.g. // ******** SECTION **********, what I am trying to do is finding all the sections with the line search of FuzzyFinder. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough. – milarepa Aug 03 '13 at 18:02

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You can't search for literal *; you have to search for different characters to get your results. FuzzyFinder is a general-purpose engine, and in most modes, the use of * as a wildcard is both intuitive and without problems. With line search, there's this corner case you've encountered. Too bad.

Ingo Karkat
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