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and describes the installation and use of the
<span class="application">Recoll</span> application.
This version describes <span class=
- "application">Recoll</span> 1.24.</p>
+ "application">Recoll</span> 1.25.</p>
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<p>This document introduces full text search notions and
describes the installation and use of the <span class=
"application">Recoll</span> application. It is updated for
- <span class="application">Recoll</span> 1.24.</p>
+ <span class="application">Recoll</span> 1.25.</p>
<p><span class="application">Recoll</span> was for a long
time dedicated to Unix-like systems. It was only lately
(2015) ported to <span class="application">MS-Windows</span>.
@@ -2338,26 +2338,26 @@
directives, this will look for documents containing all
of the search terms (the ones with more terms will get
better scores), just like the <span class="guilabel">All
- terms</span> mode which will ignore such directives.
- <span class="guilabel">Any term</span> will search for
- documents where at least one of the terms appear.</p>
+ terms</span> mode. <span class="guilabel">Any term</span>
+ will search for documents where at least one of the terms
+ appear.</p>
<p>The <span class="guilabel">Query Language</span>
features are described in <a class="link" href=
"#RCL.SEARCH.LANG" title="3.6. The query language">a
separate section</a>.</p>
- <p>All search modes allow wildcards inside terms
- (<code class="literal">*</code>, <code class=
- "literal">?</code>, <code class="literal">[]</code>). You
- may want to have a look at the <a class="link" href=
+ <p>All search modes allow terms to be expanded with
+ wildcards characters (<code class="literal">*</code>,
+ <code class="literal">?</code>, <code class=
+ "literal">[]</code>). See the <a class="link" href=
"#RCL.SEARCH.WILDCARDS" title=
"3.8.1. More about wildcards">section about
- wildcards</a> for more information about this.</p>
- <p><span class="guilabel">File name</span> will
- specifically look for file names. The point of having a
- separate file name search is that wild card expansion can
- be performed more efficiently on a small subset of the
- index (allowing wild cards on the left of terms without
- excessive penality). Things to know:</p>
+ wildcards</a> for more details.</p>
+ <p>The <span class="guilabel">File name</span> search
+ mode will specifically look for file names. The point of
+ having a separate file name search is that wild card
+ expansion can be performed more efficiently on a small
+ subset of the index (allowing wild cards on the left of
+ terms without excessive penality). Things to know:</p>
<div class="itemizedlist">
<ul class="itemizedlist" style=
"list-style-type: disc;">
@@ -2386,16 +2386,19 @@
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- <p>You can search for exact phrases (adjacent words in a
- given order) by enclosing the input inside double quotes.
- Ex: <code class="literal">"virtual reality"</code>.</p>
- <p>When using a stripped index, character case has no
- influence on search, except that you can disable stem
- expansion for any term by capitalizing it. Ie: a search
- for <code class="literal">floor</code> will also normally
- look for <code class="literal">flooring</code>,
- <code class="literal">floored</code>, etc., but a search
- for <code class="literal">Floor</code> will only look for
+ <p>In all modes except <span class="guilabel">File
+ name</span>, you can search for exact phrases (adjacent
+ words in a given order) by enclosing the input inside
+ double quotes. Ex: <code class="literal">"virtual
+ reality"</code>.</p>
+ <p>When using a stripped index (the default), character
+ case has no influence on search, except that you can
+ disable stem expansion for any term by capitalizing it.
+ Ie: a search for <code class="literal">floor</code> will
+ also normally look for <code class=
+ "literal">flooring</code>, <code class=
+ "literal">floored</code>, etc., but a search for
+ <code class="literal">Floor</code> will only look for
<code class="literal">floor</code>, in any character
case. Stemming can also be disabled globally in the
preferences. When using a raw index, <a class="link"
@@ -2403,17 +2406,17 @@
"3.7. Search case and diacritics sensitivity">the
rules are a bit more complicated</a>.</p>
<p><span class="application">Recoll</span> remembers the
- last few searches that you performed. You can use the
- simple search text entry widget (a combobox) to recall
- them (click on the thing at the right of the text field).
- Please note, however, that only the search texts are
- remembered, not the mode (all/any/file name).</p>
- <p>Typing <span class=
- "keycap"><strong>Esc</strong></span> <span class=
- "keycap"><strong>Space</strong></span> while entering a
- word in the simple search entry will open a window with
- possible completions for the word. The completions are
- extracted from the database.</p>
+ last few searches that you performed. You can directly
+ access the search history by clicking the clock button on
+ the right of the search entry, while the latter is empty.
+ Otherwise, the history is used for entry completion (see
+ next). Only the search texts are remembered, not the mode
+ (all/any/file name).</p>
+ <p>While text is entered in the search area, <span class=
+ "command"><strong>recoll</strong></span> will display
+ possible completions, filtered from the history and the
+ index search terms. This can be disabled with a GUI
+ Preferences option.</p>
<p>Double-clicking on a word in the result list or a
preview window will insert it into the simple search
entry field.</p>
@@ -3802,18 +3805,12 @@
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p><span class="guilabel">Choose editor
- applicationsr</span>: this opens a dialog which
+ application</span>: this opens a dialog which
allows you to select the application to be used to
- open each MIME type. The default is nornally to use
- the <span class=
+ open each MIME type. The default is to use the
+ <span class=
"command"><strong>xdg-open</strong></span> utility,
- but you can override it.</p>
- </li>
- <li class="listitem">
- <p><span class="guilabel">Exceptions</span>: even
- wen <span class=
- "command"><strong>xdg-open</strong></span> is used
- by default for opening documents, you can set
+ but you can use this dialog to override it, setting
exceptions for MIME types that will still be opened
according to <span class=
"application">Recoll</span> preferences. This is
@@ -3823,6 +3820,14 @@
This cannot be done with <span class=
"command"><strong>xdg-open</strong></span> which
only supports passing one parameter.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li class="listitem">
+ <p><span class="guilabel">Disable Qt autocompletion
+ in search entry</span>: this will disable the
+ completion popup. Il will only appear, and display
+ the full history, either if you enter only white
+ space in the search area, or if you click the clock
+ button on the right of the area.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p><span class="guilabel">Document filter choice
@@ -3837,15 +3842,6 @@
fixed value (e.g. <code class="literal">Query
Language</code>, or the value in use when the
program last exited.</p>
- </li>
- <li class="listitem">
- <p><span class="guilabel">Auto-start simple search
- on white space entry</span>: if this is checked, a
- search will be executed each time you enter a space
- in the simple search input field. This lets you
- look at the result list as you enter new terms.
- This is off by default, you may like it or
- not...</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p><span class="guilabel">Start with advanced