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Re: Email Archive Search Mystery
- To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- Subject: Re: Email Archive Search Mystery
- From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd dot ic dot unicamp dot br>
- Date: 02 Aug 2001 22:21:42 -0300
- Cc: Jeffrey Oldham <oldham at codesourcery dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <overseers at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0108022048270.35923-100000@dair.pair.com>
On Aug 2, 2001, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> wrote:
> It's better to index them split-up so searches like those
> Jeffrey mentioned *also* work. Else you'd have to specify
> nothing but the exact path component(s) that were indexed.
Indeed. OTOH, searching for libu77/configure.in might result in a
number of false positives. But it's definitely better to remove `/'
from the list of word component characters.
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