vim set regextype perl
The problem
Vim is a great editor. I use it every day, and that includes weekends. I've run into an issue where to search with the regular expression (dest|path): I needed to escape the parentheses and the pipe. That gets tedious.
The solution
I found my solution at stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5770058/vim-and-regular-expression-what-
kind-of-regex-does-vim-
use/26600989#26600989. At the
beginning of your search expression, use \v which then uses a "very magic"
regex mode in which fewer escapes are needed. /\v(dest|path):
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