How do I search for a string in gvim ignoring all special/regex characters in it ?
Something like:
/<It doesn't matter what is here>
You can start your search string with \V to turn off regex searching:
/\V<It doesn't matter what is here>
This is very nomagic mode (the opposite of very magic mode). See :h \V.
Just note that you still need to escape \ with \\.