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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by njsubedi on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:40AM (#23897152)
>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". (Edit: uncensored)

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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by Zhyl on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:48AM (#23897210)
I think Ctrl+F seems to be more popular than 'grepping' these days, although I would very much be in favour of bringing 'grepping' back.
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by ajuc on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:06AM (#23897391)
Well 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.

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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by JMTQp8lwXL on Monday July 20, 2020 @10:52AM (#23898392)
Control + 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.
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by black_puppydog on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:49AM (#23897226)
there's just so few people who still grep through website code directly. :P
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by ben509 on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:57AM (#23897308)
In Firefox the / key is bound to quick find, so it's there in spirit.
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by _Microft on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:05AM (#23897382)
Firefox 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.

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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by SketchySeaBeast on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:12AM (#23897443)
I 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!
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by _Microft on Thursday July 23, 2020 @08:30AM (#23926582)
Everyday a good deed - I'm glad I could help ;)
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by zentiggr on Monday July 20, 2020 @10:11AM (#23898017)
TIL - Thanks!
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by sepulchers on Monday July 20, 2020 @10:42AM (#23898299)
You mean you don't `curl | rg` web pages?
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by anonymfus on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:54AM (#23897272)
I read what you wrote as "control-finding".
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by specialist on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:16AM (#23897480)
I misread it as 'ctrl-fsck'.
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by rapnie on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:38AM (#23897676)
control-freaking is what I saw.
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by cosmodisk on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:50AM (#23897240)
How do I unread your last sentence? Now I want a T-shirt with 'Go away,or I'll CTRL-F you'.
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by phoe-krk on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:48AM (#23897208)
You have successfully ruined the formerly innocent and inconspicious image of this phrase in my mind.

Have an upvote.

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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by CincinnatiMan on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:47AM (#23897198)
I understood it to be searching the page with the Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut.
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Re:Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious by cpach on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:42AM (#23897165)
Now that you mentioned it I can’t unsee it ;-)
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