After consulting LIA, I find the following sentence at the end of 5.4.2
"Finding spans at the beinning of a field" ...
The resulting span matches are the same as the orriginal SpanQuery
spans, ...
...which indicates that it is working as documented -- but it remains to
be seen if
I'm looking at SpanQueries as I work on new test cases for LUCENE-557, and
I'm confused by the implimentation of SpanFirstQuery.getSpans().
In the Anonymous Spans instance returned, start() and end() are allways
the start() and end() of the inner SpanQuery for the current doc --
shouldn't the sta