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>The whole investigation took me 5 minutes. A Web search, a few clicks, and some ctrl+f’ing. Am I the only one who thinks the last phrase sounds weird? I might
by njsubedi 6y ago
>The whole investigation took me 5 minutes. A Web search, a few clicks, and some ctrl+f’ing.
Am I the only one who thinks the last phrase sounds weird? I might be used to reading lots of articles that sensor words, but couldn't help reading it as "control-fucking".
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- cpach 6y agoNow that you mentioned it I can’t unsee it ;-)
- CincinnatiMan 6y agoI understood it to be searching the page with the Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut.
- phoe-krk 6y agoYou have successfully ruined the formerly innocent and inconspicious image of this phrase in my mind. Have an upvote.
- Zhyl 6y agoI think Ctrl+F seems to be more popular than 'grepping' these days, although I would very much be in favour of bringing 'grepping' back.
- black_puppydog 6y agothere's just so few people who still grep through website code directly. :P
- ben509 6y agoIn Firefox the / key is bound to quick find, so it's there in spirit.
- _Microft 6y agoFirefox also allows to search without bringing up the search bar first by setting "accessibility.typeaheadfind" in "about:config" to true. Reducing the timeout for the search bar to disappear after the last keypress is very useful as well. This is hidden behind "accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout". Caveat: is messes with pages that use normal letters as keyboard inputs, like WASD as movement keys. One might need to disable it temporarily if that happens.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoI use Firefox developer edition - I assume that's set up by default. Though I've learned to work around it, it has driven me mad for so long - I didn't know you could turn it off! Finally, it's fixed! Thank you!
- _Microft 6y agoEveryday a good deed - I'm glad I could help ;)
- zentiggr 6y agoTIL - Thanks!
- sepulchers 6y agoYou mean you don't `curl | rg` web pages?
- ajuc 6y agoWell it depends which one you do. Nobody greps PDFs. And even if you have the article as plain text file you woulnd't grep to see nearby text, you would use your editor's equivalent of ctrl+f. ctrl+f is about finding the context of something grep is about filtering out the irrelevant information Linux utility "less" which is the best tool to browse logs ever has both ctrl+f equivalent(/), and grep equivalent (&) and both are useful.
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoControl + F will resonate with a far wider audience than the term 'grepping', which I assure you on many other social media spheres, would be met with blank stares. Most people I know in the real world have never interacted with a terminal.
- cosmodisk 6y agoHow do I unread your last sentence? Now I want a T-shirt with 'Go away,or I'll CTRL-F you'.
- anonymfus 6y agoI read what you wrote as "control-finding".
- specialist 6y agoI misread it as 'ctrl-fsck'.
- rapnie 6y agocontrol-freaking is what I saw.