--- a/website/BUGS.txt
+++ b/website/BUGS.txt
@@ -4,33 +4,7 @@
later versions. Bugs listed in the topmost section may also exist in older
versions.
-Latest (1.8.2):
-- There are a few problems in the qt4 version of recoll: some accelerators
- (esc-spc, ctl-arrow) do not work, neither do copy/paste between the
- result list and preview windows and x11 applications.
-
-- The q3textedit find() method is extremely slow. Positionning to first
- search term in preview has been disabled in qt4, and the application will
- sometimes appear to be looping when using the find feature in the
- preview window (it's not looping, it's searching :( )
-
-- The dates shown for email attachments in a result list are the email
- folder modification date. This should be inherited from the parent
- message instead.
-
-- There are sometimes problems with document deletions: the index can
- get in a state where deleted or moved documents are not purged from the
- index (the log file says that the doc are deleted, but they aren't
- actually). When this happens, the only solution currently is to reindex
- from scratch (recollindex -z). This is due to a xapian bug, which will be
- fixed in a future release. You can apply the following patch to xapian
- 1.0.1 to fix it:
- http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/xapian/xapian-delete-document.patch
-
-- Under ubuntu (at least), the default awk interpreter (mawk) is buggy,
- and the recoll pdf input filter does not work (removes all space
- characters). This can be solved by installing the gawk package.
-
+Latest (1.9.0 + xapian 1.0.2):
- If the user-chosen result list entry format results in several paragraphs
(in the qt textedit sense), right clicks will only work inside the first
one for each entry.
@@ -38,14 +12,14 @@
- NEAR crashes: 1.6 has added NEAR searches. Unlike what recoll did
with PHRASES, stemming expansion is performed on terms inside NEAR
clauses (except if prevented by a capitalized entry of course). There is
- a bug in Xapian at least up to 0.9.10, where NEAR does not support
+ a bug in Xapian (all versions as far as I know), where NEAR does not support
multiple OR subclauses, as would result from a multiple expansion. This
manifests itself by a 'not implemented' Xapian exception. Workarounds:
- Prevent expansion of NEAR terms (possibly except one) by
capitalizing them.
- - Or apply the following patch to xapian 0.9.9 or 0.9.10, inside the
+ - Or apply the following patch to xapian, inside the
"api/" directory:
http://www.recoll.org/xapian/xapNearDistrib.patch
or fetch the already patched source:
@@ -81,7 +55,37 @@
recollindex program (the recoll index thread doesn't work for creating
the database). Don't know the reason. Only idea I have is problem with
exception handling (recoll catches an exception while trying the
- yest inexistant db).
+ yet inexistant db).
+
+1.8.2
+- Under ubuntu (at least, maybe debian too), the default awk interpreter
+ (mawk) is ancient, and the recoll pdf input filter does not
+ work (removes all space characters). This can be solved by installing the
+ gawk package.
+ $ apt-get install gawk
+ $ update-alternatives --set awk /usr/bin/gawk
+
+- There are sometimes problems with document deletions: the index can
+ get in a state where deleted or moved documents are not purged from the
+ index (the log file says that the doc are deleted, but they aren't
+ actually). When this happens, the only solution currently is to reindex
+ from scratch (recollindex -z). This is due to a xapian bug, which is
+ fixed in xapian 1.0.2, or you can apply the following patch to xapian
+ 1.0.1 to fix it:
+ http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/xapian/xapian-delete-document.patch
+
+- The dates shown for email attachments in a result list are the email
+ folder modification date. This should be inherited from the parent
+ message instead.
+
+- There are a few problems in the qt4 version of recoll:
+ - Some accelerators (esc-spc, ctl-arrow) do not work, neither do
+ copy/paste between the result list and preview windows and x11
+ applications.
+ - The qt4 q3textedit::find() method is extremely slow, so that
+ positionning to first search term in Recoll preview has been disabled,
+ and the application will sometimes appear to be looping when using the
+ find feature in the preview window (it's not looping, it's searching...)
1.8.1
- This is not really a bug but .beagle really should be included in