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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by Figs on Friday August 02, 2019 @08:04PM (#20597695)
> Most people can skip commented code just fine, since it looks like... commented out code

Line comments, yes, but not for block comments or #if 0 disabled sections -- if your search result comes from the middle of one of those, it does not look like a comment without the context, and can mislead you.

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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by elijahparker on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:07PM (#20598191)
Reading this makes me realize programming editors should have an optional search flag to skip comments. It shouldn’t be that difficult.
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