[Xapian-discuss] Search::Xapian::QueryParser, and configurable NEAR distance?

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:52:17PM -0800, Eric Parusel wrote:
> Is it possible to tell the QueryParser when I say "word1 NEAR word3"
> that I'd like to specify a distance rather than the use the default of
> 10/11, etc?

Not at present, but it's a fairly simple addition.  I'll try to
implement it before the next release.

In the short term, you can easily patch the sources locally.  See
queryparser/queryparser_internal.cc line 551, and change the "+ 9"
to whatever you like (it's "number of terms in the NEAR phrase" + 9
so with two terms they must be within an 11 word span i.e. 10 words
apart).

Cheers,
    Olly