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From: ed@lvw6.lvw.loral.com (Ed Allen)
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Subject: Re: vi and emacs
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Date: 10 Mar 91 04:31:30 GMT
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In-Reply-To: joshi@m.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 7 Mar 91 21:44:19 GMT

Why don't you just set 'nomagic' then the special meaning goes away.

If you want it back, use '\' before the character:

/.\.\*./

will find a line with two periods on it.
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