>> (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?).

All I can say is that apparently I don't deal with volumes of data large 
enough to make searching necessary. (Then again, I always thought that 
if you have to *search* your files, you haven't organised them properly...)

>> 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.

I guess it depends on whether you *know* precisely what you're searching 
for, or whether you're looking for "something that might be to do with 
the IP address"...

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