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class="literal">recollindex -z</span> will do the same in most
cases.</p>
+ <p>Also, using the anchored search feature requires a full reindex.</p>
<h2>Changes</h2>
@@ -61,6 +62,22 @@
<li>The GUI advanced search panel allows specifying a
field for each entry (ie: author/recipient, etc).</li>
+
+ <li>It is now possible to anchor searches to the beginning or
+ end of the text or field, by using <tt>^</tt> and <tt>$</tt>
+ characters at the beginning or the end of a term or
+ phrase. A maximum distance can be specified as a phrase
+ slack either in the advanced search panel, or as a query
+ language modifier, ie: <tt>"^beginterm"o10</tt> would search
+ for <tt>beginterm</tt> within 10 terms of the beginning of
+ the text. This feature was suggested to me (thanks Gökhan),
+ for searching for a name at the beginning of a text
+ (in the author list, as opposed to anywhere in
+ the text). This is useful for example in the very common
+ case where the metadata for the author list was not
+ created. More details about this feature are to be found in
+ the <a href="http://www.recoll.org/usermanual/index.html">user
+ manual</a>.</li>
<li>It is possible to configure the result list snippet
separator, given as an html fragment. This is an ellipsis by