--- a/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf
+++ b/src/sampleconf/recoll.conf
@@ -1,17 +1,26 @@
-# @(#$Id: recoll.conf,v 1.3 2005-02-08 14:45:54 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# @(#$Id: recoll.conf,v 1.4 2005-04-06 10:20:11 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
 
 # Recoll default configuration file. This should be copied to
 # ~/.recoll/recoll.conf 
 
-# Space-separated list of directories to index
-
+# Space-separated list of directories to index. Next line indexes $HOME
 topdirs = ~
 
+# Wildcard expressions for names of files and directories that we should
+# ignore:
+skippedNames = *~ #* .deps bin CVS  Cache caughtspam
+
+# Debug messages
+loglevel = 4
+logfilename = stderr
+
+# Languages for which to build stemming databases at the end of
+# indexing. Stemmer names can be found on the xapian site
+indexstemminglanguages = english french
+
 # Use stemming of query terms or not (ie: expand search for floors to
-# floor, flooring, etc... There is currently a serious performance hit for
-# this (at query time), but you can try it, it may be acceptable depending
-# on your database size 
-querystemming = 0
+# floor, flooring, etc... )
+querystemming = 1
 querystemminglanguage = english
 
 # Name of file suffix to mime-type map file. 
@@ -31,8 +40,8 @@
 # Guessing charsets usually does not work well
 guesscharset = 0
 
-# You could specify different parameters for a subdirectory like this: (no
-# tilde substitution there for now, sorry)
+# You could specify different parameters for a subdirectory like this. No
+# tilde substitution there for now, sorry:
 #[/home/me/englishdocs/plain]
 #defaultcharset = iso-8859-2