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This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don't use it at all.
"90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousands," Russell said. "I do these field studies and I can't tell you how many hours I've sat in somebody's house as they've read through a long document trying to find the result they're looking for. At the end I'll say to them, 'Let me show one little trick here,' and very often people will say, 'I can't believe I've been wasting my life!'"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 23 2019, @04:50PM (6 children)
I use '/'. It works in everything that matters to me. Crap where ctrl-f is needed is targeting windows.
I recently had to use the chromium browser for a broken ie6^H^H^H chrome only airline website. I was surprised that it had no support for native shortcut keys-- only windows shortcut keys worked in it. It was the first time I needed to use ctrl-f that I can remember, and it took me a while to work out that ctrl-f was what was needed.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday December 23 2019, @08:35PM (2 children)
I've been criticized at times [soylentnews.org] for using "\" instead of "/" since I bind "/" to ctrl+f and, along with multiple language bindings, often end up just using the wrong slash out of lazy habit.
Throw in the i3 bindings and how my laptop's touch pad is disabled since I like parking my wrists there, and you can see why no one wants to borrow my laptop. Well, that and the unmarked key caps... They say obscurity isn't security. But you try getting anything done when the keyboard isn't QWERTY or DVORAK since the damn thing keeps switching back and forth from command mode which I've scripted system wide.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Monday December 23 2019, @09:33PM (1 child)
Lol, I see people looking at my i3 desktop and they can't figure out how to do anything but if I opened up a terminal, my 85 year old mother might be right at home: she taught me how to get around in DOS!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday December 23 2019, @10:34PM
Try Kiss launcher [google.com]. Keeps the kids away :D
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday December 23 2019, @09:21PM (1 child)
Windows specifically, I tend to use F3 reasonably frequently [microsoft.com].
Also, I don't know about you, but *I* used to use Control-F a *lot* on all platforms. Nowadays though, I prefer Meta-D and then retype an entire word instead.
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday December 24 2019, @02:05AM
F3 seems to be alias for CTRL-G here, using an IBM OS..
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday December 24 2019, @02:02AM
Using a browser ported from Windows, CTRL-F does find and / does quick find, not sure of the difference, perhaps CTRL-G doesn't work after /. There are Windowism's in the edit menu like CTRL-C for copy instead of the correct CTRL-INSERT and CTRL-V instead of the correct SHIFT-INSERT.