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Of those of us making up the 10% who do use Ctrl/Cmd + F (or '/', or some keyboard shortcut for find); how many find themselves saying "Ctrl F" out loud when looking for something on a piece of paper (or somewhere in local space)?

I constantly catch myself chanting, "Ctrl F, Ctrl F, Ctrl F" in frustration as I search for a lost item or try to find a keyboard shortcut on a quick reference sheet that's printed.




Try, "grep grep grep". That's easier to say.


OK, now I'm curious.

> cd /usr/bin/

> grep grep grep

Binary file grep matches

It's nice to know that there is indeed a grep in grep when you grep grep for grep.


There's a lot of grep in grep:

[10:37 PM] 97Mb$ strings `which grep`|grep grep `egrep' means `grep -E'. `fgrep' means `grep -F'. Direct invocation as either `egrep' or `fgrep' is deprecated. egrep fgrep bug-grep@gnu.org GNU grep http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/ others, see <http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>;


I don't think (and hope) that I don't vocalize it, but I've definitely caught myself making the finger motion in thin air.


And Cmd-Z.

"Aw crap, that's not how I spell my last name." * finger twitch *

All the damn time.


Not an emacs user, I take it? Otherwise you'd have a nonstop twitch in your left hand for all possible situations.




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