In Vim, how do you search for a word boundary character, like the \b in regexp?

Question

I\'d like to be able to search

/the\\b

to find \"the\" but not \"then\".

I also tried searching with very magic turne

Answer 1

If very magic is turned on, then you shouldn't escape the > character. See what's magic search. SO in your case you'd do:

/\v

it would search for only the word 'the'.