How to escape special characters in Vim/FuzzyFinder?

Question

I am using the line search of FuzzyFinder in Vim. I am trying to find lines that contains two asterisks (**). Obviously asteriks are use for pattern matching so I tried backslash escaping, but that doesn't work. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can't search for literal *; you have to search for different characters to get your results. FuzzyFinder is a general-purpose engine, and in most modes, the use of * as a wildcard is both intuitive and without problems. With line search, there's this corner case you've encountered. Too bad.