[Xapian-discuss] Request for enhancement

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 12:08:53AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:18:12AM -0400, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > cats NEAR 5 dogs
> > 
> > Where NEAR permits a word proximity value.
> 
> It's not too hard to achieve this - Xapian::Query supports it, so it's
> just the QueryParser which needs to be taught to understand it.

I've now implemented this.  I went for the syntax used by some other
search engines:

cats NEAR/5 dogs

And while I was at it, I also added "ADJ" (like "NEAR", but the words
must also appear in matching documents in the same order as they do in
the query).  

Cheers,
    Olly