[Xapian-discuss] pure data xapian search engine

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 02:53:48PM -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> The one sticking point is with indexing Pd "objects", which are typically
> letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, and sometimes a trailing tilde,
> with no whitespaces.
> So "clip" is one object, and "clip~" is a different object.
> 
> I can index these terms just fine, and I'm currently using prefix XO to
> make the clip~ object searchable using "object:clip~".  The problem
> is that the query parser is removing the tilde, even if I set the stemming
> strategy to $xapian::QueryParser_STEM_NONE (using the tcl bindings).
> 
> How do I tell the query parser to keep the tilde?  I suppose I could
> change all instances of object~ to object_tilde in both the index and
> the user input, but since they go into the index with no problem is there
> a way to tell the parser to keep them for the search?

I think this got answered on IRC, but in case not (and for the archives)
I'd suggest making "object" a boolean prefix.

Cheers,
    Olly