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Greppability is an underrated code metric (morizbuesing.com)
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[โ€“] fool 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Greppability also contributed to this thingy

int
main()
{
  // dam
}

in Mozilla C-style and GNU C-style projects. Of course, it's a remnant of the past (grep ^main), but kgmgaehgka.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

For code bases where this is a thing, you could use greps context lines: grep ---before-context 1 "^main"