Re: [PATCH 2/3] doc: add material on stemming and wildcards

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+Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] doc: add material on stemming and wildcards\r
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+On Sun, 18 Jan 2015, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\r
+> This is lightly massaged from the searching page on the wiki.\r
+> ---\r
+>  doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\r
+>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)\r
+>\r
+> diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst\r
+> index 52f6804..3b27053 100644\r
+> --- a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst\r
+> +++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst\r
+> @@ -129,6 +129,34 @@ operators, but will have to be protected from interpretation by the\r
+>  shell, (such as by putting quotation marks around any parenthesized\r
+>  expression).\r
+>  \r
+> +Stemming\r
+> +--------\r
+> +\r
+> +**Stemming** in notmuch means is that these searches\r
+\r
+Unnecessary "is"?\r
+\r
+> +\r
+> +::\r
+> +\r
+> +        notmuch search detailed\r
+> +        notmuch search details\r
+> +        notmuch search detail\r
+> +\r
+> +will all return identical results, because Xapian first "reduces" the\r
+> +term to the common stem (here 'detail') and then performs the search.\r
+> +\r
+> +There are two ways to turn this off: a search for a capitalized word\r
+> +will be performed unstemmed, so that one can search for "John" and not\r
+> +get results for "Johnson"; phrase searches are also unstemmed (see\r
+> +below for details).  Stemming is currently only supported for\r
+> +English. Words in other languages will be performed unstemmed unless\r
+\r
+Maybe end the sentence here, and drop this line:\r
+\r
+> +somebody teaches Xapian how to perform stemming for that language.\r
+> +\r
+> +Wildcards\r
+> +---------\r
+> +\r
+> +It is possible to use a trailing '\*' as a wildcard. A search for\r
+> +'wildc\*' will match 'wildcard', 'wildcat', etc.\r
+> +\r
+> +\r
+>  Boolean and Probabilistic Prefixes\r
+>  ----------------------------------\r
+>  \r
+> -- \r
+> 2.1.4\r