--- a/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml
+++ b/src/doc/user/usermanual.sgml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
<!ENTITY XAP "<application>Xapian</application>">
<!ENTITY WIKI "http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/">
]>
-
+
<book lang="en">
<bookinfo>
@@ -1741,7 +1741,8 @@
<replaceable>*coll</replaceable>), the expansion can take quite
a long time because the full index term list will have to be
processed. The expansion is currently limited at 10000 results for
- wildcards and regular expressions.</para>
+ wildcards and regular expressions. It is possible to change the
+ limit in the configuration file.</para>
<para>Double-clicking on a term in the result list will insert
it into the simple search entry field. You can also cut/paste
@@ -2504,7 +2505,7 @@
<command>konqueror</command>.</para>
<para>This can be done by either explicitly inserting
- <literal><a href="recoll:/..."></literal> links
+ <literal><![CDATA[<a href="recoll://...">]]></literal> links
around some document areas, or automatically by adding a
very small <application>javascript</application> program to the
documents, like the following example, which would initiate a search by
@@ -3061,30 +3062,36 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>You should be aware of a few things before using
+ <para>You should be aware of a few things when using
wildcards.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Using a wildcard character at the beginning of
- a word can make for a slow search because &RCL; will have to
- scan the whole index term list to find the matches.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem><para>When working with a raw index (preserving
- character case and diacritics), the literal part of a wildcard
- expression will be matched exactly for case and
- diacritics.</para>
- </listitem>
+ a word can make for a slow search because &RCL; will have to
+ scan the whole index term list to find the
+ matches. However, this is much less a problem for field
+ searches, and queries
+ like <replaceable>author:*@domain.com</replaceable> can
+ sometimes be very useful.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>For &RCL; version 18 only, when working with a
+ raw index (preserving character case and diacritics), the
+ literal part of a wildcard expression will be matched
+ exactly for case and diacritics. This is not true any
+ more for versions 19 and later.</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>Using a <literal>*</literal> at the end of a
- word can produce more matches than you would think, and
- strange search results. You can use the <link
- linkend="RCL.SEARCH.GUI.TERMEXPLORER">term explorer</link> tool to
- check what completions exist for a given term. You can also
- see exactly what search was performed by clicking on the link
- at the top of the result list. In general, for natural
- language terms, stem expansion will produce better results
- than an ending <literal>*</literal> (stem expansion is turned
- off when any wildcard character appears in the term).</para>
- </listitem>
+ word can produce more matches than you would think, and
+ strange search results. You can use the
+ <link linkend="RCL.SEARCH.GUI.TERMEXPLORER">term
+ explorer</link> tool to check what completions exist for
+ a given term. You can also see exactly what search was
+ performed by clicking on the link at the top of the result
+ list. In general, for natural language terms, stem
+ expansion will produce better results than an
+ ending <literal>*</literal> (stem expansion is turned off
+ when any wildcard character appears in the
+ term).</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2> <!-- wildchars -->
@@ -4423,7 +4430,7 @@
<ulink url="mailto:jfd@recoll.org">I would
very much welcome patches</ulink>.</para>
- <para>Depending on the <application>Qt 3</application>
+ <para>Depending on the <application>Qt 3</application>
configuration on your system, you may have to set the
<envar>QTDIR</envar> and <envar>QMAKESPECS</envar>
variables in your environment:</para>
@@ -4448,7 +4455,8 @@
<para>Neither <envar>QTDIR</envar> nor
<envar>QMAKESPECS</envar> should be needed with
- Qt 4, configuration details are entirely determined by
+ <application>Qt 4</application>,
+ configuration details are entirely determined by
<command>qmake</command> (which is quite often installed as
<command>qmake-qt4</command>).</para>
@@ -4769,7 +4777,7 @@
<para>Example of use for skipping text files only in a
specific directory:</para>
<programlisting>
-skippedPaths = ~/somedir/∗.txt
+skippedPaths = ~/somedir/*.txt
</programlisting>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>