--- a/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml
+++ b/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
Dockes</holder>
</copyright>
- <releaseinfo>$Id: usermanual.sgml,v 1.65 2008-10-07 08:07:47 dockes Exp $</releaseinfo>
+ <releaseinfo>$Id: usermanual.sgml,v 1.66 2008-10-08 16:12:36 dockes Exp $</releaseinfo>
<abstract>
<para>This document introduces full text search notions
@@ -228,10 +228,17 @@
</para>
<para>&RCL; indexing processes plain text, HTML, openoffice
- and e-mail files internally. Other types (ie: postscript, pdf,
- ms-word, rtf) need external applications for preprocessing. The
- list is in the <link linkend="rcl.install.external">
- installation</link> section.</para>
+ and e-mail files internally.</para>
+
+ <para>Other file types (ie: postscript, pdf, ms-word, rtf ...)
+ need external applications for preprocessing. The list is in the
+ <link linkend="rcl.install.external"> installation</link>
+ section. After every indexing operation, &RCL; updates a list of
+ commands that would be needed for indexing existing files
+ types. This list can be displayed from the
+ <command>recoll</command> <guilabel>File</guilabel> menu. It is
+ stored in the <filename>missing</filename> text file
+ inside the configuration directory.</para>
<para>Without further configuration, &RCL; will index all
appropriate files from your home directory, with a reasonable
@@ -1624,10 +1631,19 @@
<sect1 id="rcl.install.external">
<title>Supporting packages</title>
- <para>&RCL; uses external applications to index some file
+ <para>&RCL; uses external applications to index some file
types. You need to install them for the file types that you wish to
have indexed (these are run-time dependencies. None is needed for
- building &RCL;):</para>
+ building &RCL;).</para>
+
+ <para>After an indexing pass, the commands that were found
+ missing can be displayed from the <command>recoll</command>
+ <guilabel>File</guilabel> menu. The list is stored in the
+ <filename>missing</filename> text file inside the configuration
+ directory.</para>
+
+ <para>A list of common file types which need external
+ commands:</para>
<itemizedlist>