Escape forward and backward slashes in Vim findsearch

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How to search something like <foo/> in vim and replace with <bar\>?

• :%s/<foo\/>/<bar\\> using escape character \
• changing delimiter :%s@<foo/>@<bar\\>
• above @ is the delimiter, you can use any special character for delimiter like #, :

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tags: regex, vim

source:

• Vim search/find with escape characters