It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names. Once used to mark periods and commas, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, exclusive 'or' and inclusive 'or', and as a date separator. / Slash or solidus.

It is the mirror image of the common slash /. It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s. It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, downwhack, backslant, backwhack, bash, reverse slant, reverse solidus, and reversed virgule.

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a slash is "the symbol / used in writing to separate letters, numbers, or words." Meanwhile, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as "a mark / used typically to denote 'or' (as in and/or), 'and or' (as in straggler/deserter), or 'per' (as in feet/second)." The Collins ...

Basic Search and Replace using the Slash Command Vim's normal mode provides a quick and intuitive way to execute Vim find and replace operations within a line using the slash (/) command. By typing / followed by the desired search pattern, Vim navigates to and matches the next occurrence.