title: Perform a non-regex search/replace in vim
body: <p>When doing search/replace in vim, I almost never need to use regex, so it's a pain to constantly be escaping everything, Is there a way to make it default to not using regex or is there an alternative command to accomplish this?</p>
  
  <p>As an example, if I want to replace <code>&lt;</code> with <code>&amp;lt;</code>, I'd like to just be able to type <code>s/&lt;/&amp;lt;/g</code> instead of <code>s/\&lt;/\&amp;lt\;/g</code></p>