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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 lo

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.

akavi 15y ago
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.
- Cushman 15y ago
  And Cmd-Z. "Aw crap, that's not how I spell my last name." * finger twitch * All the damn time.
  - hugh3 15y ago
    Not an emacs user, I take it? Otherwise you'd have a nonstop twitch in your left hand for all possible situations.
eru 15y ago
Try, "grep grep grep". That's easier to say.
- hugh3 15y ago
  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.
  - gwern 15y ago
    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/ http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/ others, see <http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS&#62 http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>