On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:43:27AM -0800, Uwe Dierolf wrote:
> If we are searching like this
>    swish-e -w 'metaname=foo_bar'
> and if "_" is not defined as a searchable character (Wordcharacters)
> than internally swish-e does the following
>    swish-e -w 'metaname=foo bar'

Yep, I think that's the way it works.

> But this is not what we are looking for!
> This search means find "foo" in metaname and "bar" anywhere.

That's right.


> We are using as workaround the syntax which we have to use
> if we are looking for two or more words:
>    swish-e -w 'metaname=(foo_bar)'
> == swish-e -w 'metaname=(foo bar)'

That's exactly why there is the parenthesis.

> Is it a bug or a featurea?

Neither.  It's the search syntax.

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org

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