On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:05:48AM +0200, Tommy Dugandzic wrote:
> I suggest replacing this:
>
> ----
> Even when searching on subwords is not checked, appending an
> asterisk, '*', to the end of a keyword will allow subword searching
> for that word.
> ----
>
> with this:
>
> ----
> Searching for subwords is not checked unless you append an asterix ("*")
> to the end of a keyword.
> ----
>
> or optionally with this:
>
> ----
> Searching for subwords is not checked unless you append an asterix ("*")
> to the end of a keyword. If you append an asterix to one of your
> keywords, that particular keyword will be searched for subwords.
> ----
Both of your rephrasings are incorrect: enabling the searching for
subwords option is equivalent to appending an asterix to the end
of the keywords.
> Also, I wonder, why not enable regex searching for those inclined? I
> understand Google can't do that due to their huge db. But is the package
> db really too big for that? Or are there other reasons?
Because the package database is indexed by an old version of swish
that does not support regex searching.
--
Matt
