Vim Magic Option

In addition to useful special characters in search pattern matching, vim can also do some excellent stuff in the second phrase of its substitution statements, as documented in sub-replace-special: <a href="http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/change.html#sub-replace-special" rel="nofollow">http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/change.html#sub-replac...</a><p>I find \U, \L and \E to be most useful, for example:<p><pre><code> :%s/ALL_CAPS_\(.*\)_HUZZAH/SOME_LOWERCASE_\L\1\E_HUZZAH/g </code></pre> Will translate "ALL_CAPS_IS_GREAT_HUZZAH" to "SOME_LOWERCASE_is_great_HUZZAH". Super handy in certain situations.<p>It's also worth noting that these "magic" settings affect :s, :g, / and ?.

But is there any way to set the "very magic" option in your .vimrc so you don't have to type \v every time you want to avoid a barrage of backslashes?