<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > > Starting with forward-slash is probably better, because it is guaranteed > not to be in any file name and isn't a special regexp character, so > won't ever be in a valid filename regexp. It also happens to be the same > character vi uses for a regexp search. And Firefox. And (in programming) in Perl and Sed and Awk... "Power users" would generally be used to typing this. </blockquote></div> For me, "/" enters the search mode in Firefox, but I can't match patterns.