On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Paul Goyette <p...@whooppee.com> wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I love apropos(1). But...
Thank you :) > I'm continually bitten by the "stemming" that occurs. Today's example > is an attempt to find all the man pages that refer to file system lfs. > Using "apropos lfs" returns more than 120 entries, complete with their > associated context! The vast majority of those entries are really for > "lf" (in either upper- or lower-case), and have no relation to lfs the > file system! > > Would it be unreasonable to add a no-stem option to apropos(1)? As Joerg said, as an option it would be impractical. The better approach would be to use a custom tokenizer which uses a blacklist of words that should not be stemmed. I was tinkering with it few months back and had it even working as a proof of concept but now it seems I can't find the copy of the work I did. I will try to redo it this weekend. Thanks for bringing it up :-) - Abhinav
