title: Basic Vim - Search and Replace text bounded by specific characters
body: <p>Say I wanted to replace : </p>
  
  <pre><code>"Christoph Waltz" = "That's a Bingo";
  "Gary Coleman" = "What are you talking about, dear Willis?";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to just have : </p>
  
  <pre><code>"Christoph Waltz"
  "Gary Coleman"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i.e. I want to remove all the characters including and after the <code>=</code> and the <code>;</code></p>
  
  <p>I thought the regex for finding the pattern would be <code>\=.*?\;</code>. In vim, I tried : </p>
  
  <pre><code>:%s/\=.*?\;$//g
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it gave me an <code>Invalid Command</code> error and <code>Nothing after \=</code>. How do I remove the above text? Apologies, but I'm new to this.</p>