https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91336
--- Comment #2 from Nick Levinson <nick_levin...@yahoo.com> --- That's exactly why clarification would help: if you know something about it and you still have to stare at it to figure out what it means, ordinary public users would be totally lost. The Help says this about regex: "Allows you to use wildcards in your search." Geeks don't need much, but a friendlier treatment is needed for ordinary Earthlings. Here's a first draft: "Regexes are for complex searches that can't be done in simpler ways. They include wildcards (characters you use when you're not sure exactly which characters you need to find), ways of searching for characters that can't be typed directly (like tabs and paragraph endings), and characters in certain positions (like at a line beginning)." Maybe someone else can improve on that draft. I know the asterisk and question mark are not literal search terms unless escaped, but the phrasing in Help was not quite what was happening in applying regex. The "c" is also about phrasing in Help. When I recently went back to the Help list, I discovered that the two wildcards are not used quite as some other software uses them, and that might add to the potential confusion. I'm not a great expert on regex and would prefer that someone else clarify the Help. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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