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> regex compatible

Even a typical Product Manager, let alone a regular layperson, would have no idea where to start with regex, so it's a super weird thing to bring up. Of course grep is a great tool, just how the hammer is a great tool (invented around 3 million years ago); but we've moved past that. You can't use a hammer to do EUV lithography.

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You're right, most people just need basic word search and replace, which pretty much any text editor supports.

Supporting regex covers that extra mile that some advanced power users might need, since you were referencing obscure grep flags.

What kind of search and replace are you doing that is akin to EUV lithography?

A good example of something I was doing today. Taking some text and formatting it as a markdown table with proper spacing. Copilot made it super to highlight the line, type out what I wanted, then kept moving on. Manually it was lots of adding spaces, deleting spaces, and adding |s.

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