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Alexandre Oliva oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br
Thu Aug 2 19:25:00 GMT 2001


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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