Re: [Tracker] Alternate word search with "OR"

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang gmail com>]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Jin Suh <jinssuh yahoo com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I have a question for you gurus about the tracker.
>
>  I have 3 search terms such as "text", "document", and "setting". I want to search one or more of
>  these words.
>
>  When I entered a word "text" (without quote) in the search entry, I got 244 results.
>  With "document", 64
>  With "setting", 49
>  When I did "text OR document", 52
>  When I did "text OR document OR setting", I got 26 but I expected more results.
>  Both "text document setting" and "text, document, setting" are 26 same results as above with "OR".
>
>
>  Could someone explain to me why? How could I do to search with "OR" (one or more words, alternate
>  words) like google?

OR is not yet supported (so everything is treated as AND), but this
link got a patch (which I haven't tested):
* http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509607


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