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uriel on Aug 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F ...

Another sad thing (credit for noting this goes to Rob Pike years ago) is that after years of development and hundreds of thousands of lines of code web browsers still don't support searching with regexps! (Hell, Chrome doesn't even support case sensitive search.) I'm sure there are extensions for this, but the browser is in an infinitely better position to implement this consistently and reliably.

This is a feature ed had 40 years ago.

dave1010uk on Aug 20, 2011 [–]

I had a Firefox extension on my PC that did this pretty well. You can always do a "curl | grep" in an emergency.

Imagine a world where most people understood regular expressions. Definitely going to teach my son about them when he's mastered times tables.

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