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Re:Why Vi Rocks by depressed on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:35PM (#19630373)
Searching with regexes is more likely to be useful when trolling through log or data files than code.

Even then, the most common cases for me are searching for a string only at the beginning or ending of a line, or only searching for instances that are not part of a larger word.

Re:Why Vi Rocks by joevandyk on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:56PM (#19630485)
I search for /def.*partial_name/ frequently when I can’t quite remember what a method is called in Ruby.