Using a backslash in Replacement Text in NP++

Hi,

<b>I posted this a few days ago, but no one has responded at all -- is this because no one is listening, or does nobody know the answer to my simple question? All I want to do is use regular expression matching to insert text which includes a backslash, like "\abc" or "\xyz".</b> Here is the post again:

I'm relatively new to Notepad++, and am having trouble getting a fairly standard regular expression working.
I'm working in LaTeX, and want to using Find/Replace (either CTRL-H or CTRL-R) to insert some LaTeX macros into my document.

Eg. I want to put "\abc" at the beginning of each line in the selected text.

Normally (in Perl, PHP, etc) I would just use "\\abc" as the replacement text, so that "\\" (double backslash) would give me a single backslash in the document, followed by abc (the desired result). Notepad++, however, has the annoying habit of grouping the second backslash with the "a", not the first backslash!

The only solution I have found so far is to do it in two steps -- replace with plain "abc" with regular expressions turned on, then replace all "abc"s with "\abc"s with regular expressions turned off.

Surely it is possible in one step?

Thanks,
Simon