Email Archive Search Mystery

Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
Thu Aug 2 17:57:00 GMT 2001


On 2 Aug 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Aug  2, 2001, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> wrote:
>
> > The underscore is there so you can search for variable names.
> > I did some archeology but I couldn't find why slash was added to
> > be considered part of a search word.
>
> Err...  So that you can search for pathnames?

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.

brgds, H-P



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