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• eyeball search n.,v. To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical senso
  as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool....
• desk check: n.,v. To {grovel} over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow
  a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers --- though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be....
• vgrep: /vee'grep/ v.,n. Visual grep. The operation of finding patterns in a file optically rather than digitally (also called an `optical grep').
  See {grep}; compare {vdiff}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• desk check n.,v. To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow
  a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers -- though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be....
• vgrep /vee'grep/ v.,n. Visual grep. The operation of finding patterns in a file optically rather than digitally (also called an `optical grep').
  See grep; compare vdiff....
• vdiff: /vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by {eyeball search}.
  The term `optical diff' has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot differences....
• grep: /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p
  where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via {{UNIX}} `grep(1)'] vt....
• FIXME: imp. A standard tag often put in C comments near a piece of code that needs work.
  The point of doing so is that a `grep' or a similar pattern-matching tool can find all such places quickly....
• vdiff /vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by eyeball search.
  The term `optical diff' has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot differences....