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is the incremental search facility that highlights matching text as characters are typed. isearch-forward and isearch-backward support searching characters, strings, and regexp.

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When to use normal incremental search in place of the regex version?

Assuming familiarity with regex, is there ever any reason to use the normal incremental search (C-s) over regex (C-M-s)?
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