Re: [htdig-dev] Re: not allowing getopt::std

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

> Could someone who knows what  exact:  and  hidden:  mean please
> explain what they are for (and/or document them officially)?  I don't
> want to break anything while trying to fix the bug.

These are fuzzy algorithms essentially. You could have endings:blah. 
You're right that it's undocumented, and it should probably be taken 
out of the parser. (Nice idea to have per-word fuzzy possibilities, but 
maybe not the right way to do it.)

> On a related note, does anyone have any ideas for the syntax of "field
> restricted" searches?  I was thinking of something like "title:word"
> to search for "word" in the title field, or "heading:word" etc.  Was
> the plan to allow user-defined fields in meta-data to be searched?

Well, this is the "normal" syntax used by other sites. As for 
user-defined fields, it's certainly an ultimate goal but I think it's 
more important to:
a) get the new parser running.
b) get typical field-restricted searches like "title:word" going.

-Geoff