vi find
 

usually when searching we just use "/search_string"

but if I want to find a "\n" string, can't seemed to do so.

"/\n" will search for any place which have an "enter key"



anyway to find a string which compose of "\n"?

havent u tried with grep??
i dont understand what you want to do

The \<n\> search string (add a slash in front to actually use the command) is what is generated when I try to search for \n in a file. You know you can search for occurances of the word under the cursor just by typing an asterisk ( * ) in command mode, right?


Håkan

Try something like:
/\\n

This also works with other characters that have special meanings in vi (like ^ and $).