On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 :-)
I have just committed this: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2017/06/18/msg085477.html Could you give it a go and let me know how is it now :) (you will have to rebuild the database with `makemandb -f'). - Abhinav
