Nano's find and replace in Vim?

Question

Vim's find and replace is very powerful and very useful however sometimes I don't want that power - adding backslashes can be a drag. Sometimes, I just want to find and replace exactly across a whole document. No patterns. No magic.

Nano's find/replace is exactly what I want, pretty much.

Is there a plugin or command that will provide me with this?

Answer 1

Then disable the magic for that search -- /\V(nothing)+ is magic* but backslash. See :help magic. This is actually what the Search dialog in gvim does by default.