Yeah, that was their response to my ticket as well. Shift-Escape saves some time, but it's still a useless feature that provides nothing but annoyance.
With Ack, I had to set up a bunch of --type-add lines to ~/.ackrc so that Ack wouldn't ignore e.g. SCSS files. ag searches every file by default, except for VCS files (e.g. .git/ and .hg) and files that are ignored by your VCS.
Ag's default behavior is way better, and less confusing to new users. Plus, it's faster.
They do a brief interview with you over the phone, get your measurements, and send you a trunk of clothes every month. You only pay for what you keep. My friends have been very satisfied with that they've gotten.
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Try inspecting the element (in Chrome inspector or Firebug or whatever). My password is visible there. When doing a simple view-source, I just see "${password}" though.
You can search the contents of public repos from the main search box (https://github.com/search has instructions on how), and the search bar on private repos is only intended as a workaround for the main search not working for them. I have no idea how it's taken them this long to figure out that the repo-specific search box is far more user-friendly and discoverable.