regex_escape.vim

This plugin provides normal and visual mode mapping targets to insert escaping backslash characters before regular expression metacharacters for text selected by a motion, as a quick way to put a literal string into a regular expression context.

It's useful generally as a shortcut, but the author particularly likes it for keeping track of backslash-heavy expressions where counting gets tiresome.

For example, in the default BRE mode, this string:

foo * ^bar $\ baz \ quux

Becomes:

foo * \^bar \$\ baz \ quux

License

Copyright (c) Tom Ryder. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself. See :help license.