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by binrec 2197 days ago
Chrome's Ctrl+F behavior is damned annoying for handling linguistic data. When I search for ʰ (aspiration), I don't want h (the letter, which appears in some of the column headers and most of the notes entries) - conflating the two makes searching for ʰ practically worthless. If I couldn't turn off "ASCII characters match everything that looks vaguely like them" in Google Sheets (i.e. enable regex search), I wouldn't use Google Sheets.

...and now that I've complained about it I notice that there are extensions to enable regex search in the browser itself, nice