> (I'm still having trouble thinking up a use-case for that. About the only
> thing I can think of is trying to find out which header file defines a
> particular symbol or something.)
I use the Windows search (which searches within files) quite a lot when
looking for which source file contains certain code. Outside of
programming/development I can't think of many other common cases (maybe you
are looking for a certain phrase within a letter you wrote?).
> If it's a small file, you can search it just be scrolling through it and
> looking with your eyes. You don't need an automated search facility. The
> only real reason to use an automated search is if there's too much data to
> hunt through manually.
If a file is big enough to need scrolling, it's going to be faster to ask
the editor to search for it than using your eyes.
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