Delete all occurrences of double backslash

Question

How do I delete all occurrences of \\\\ from cursor position to the end of file?

What I tried:

:%s/\\\\//g deletes single \\ and in all the file.

:g#\\\\#$d does not really work.

Answer 1

Try :.,$s/\\\\\\\\//g

• The first \\ will escape the second \\ , so you need to use 4 to get 2 literal backslashes.
• Thanks to this SO answer , I learned that the % in :%s is shorthand for 1,$ (or the first line, to the end of the file). If we change this to .,$ , our substitution will run from the current position to the end of the file.