Re: nnir search string

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> On 31 Aug 1998, Harry Putnam said:

  Harry> Can any kind of `regexp' or `boolean' formula be used at the
  Harry> nnir prompt.  The comments in nnir.el, say a 'string' is
  Harry> expected. But that word always confuses me.  It gets used to
  Harry> mean just about anything.

I used the word string because I didn't want to tell you what it means
:-)

No, seriously: it is a query as defined by the current search engine.
Thus, if you use Glimpse, you can type a Glimpse query as if you were
calling Glimpse from the command line (modulo shell escapes -- see
below).  If you use freeWAIS-sf, you type in a fwsf query.

Only difference is that in the shell you need to be careful with
special characters like * and ?.  When typing the query after `G G',
you can just type * and it will be passed on to Glimpse or freeWAIS-sf
just like that.

kai
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