Use GNU-style regular expressions in search/replace
I'm tired of having to reference help whenever I want to build a regex. Modern developers work on multiple platforms, and Visual Studio's regex syntax is unique, to say the least.
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Jeff
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dan moseley
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Jeff you'll want to read this
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2011/03/15/quick-find-extension-in-the-productivity-power-tools.aspx
VS11 changes to use .NET regex syntax, which is very much like GNU (I'm not sure how close, maybe it's the same, but it's not VS's strange old syntax)
Dan
