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cafard on Aug 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F ...

And 98 percent don't know how to use search-forward-regexp.

ckoning on Aug 20, 2011 [–]

WAY more than 98%. 98% or more don't even know what a regexp is, let alone how to construct one to match what they want to find, and then use the search-forward-regexp tools to actually find the matches.

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