treats everything as a regex by default but you can turn it off easily... /\Vwhatever... see :help \V you can also use \< and \> (beginning of word, end of wor

treats everything as a regex by default but you can turn it off easily... /\Vwhatever... see :help \V you can also use \< and \> (beginning of word, end of word) for easier phrase matching... /\<my phrase\>