Re: [Tracker] Searching for Filnames with underscore

[Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org>]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:32:14 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> Hi hi Thomas,
>
> > thanks for the info. So this means I have to use space as separator 
> > in file names? Any possiblities to change that? I can understand it 
> > from a technical point of you but why is this restriction opposed on 
> > the user. There are enough arguments to not use spaces in filenames?
> >
> > Kind of confused ;-)
>
> The word breaking algorithm is not something applied only to 
> filenames,
> it is applied to all text parsed for FTS searching, and the same 
> rules
> apply to all the text, we don't have specific rules just for 
> filenames.
> So, if you want to really look for files with FTS using as search 
> word
> part of the filename, not the start of it, you'll need to use 
> something
> else as word separator (whitespace will do it; and also single dot,
> which will always be forced as word separator, even if Unicode word
> breaking rules don't say so).
>
> My suggestion is to avoid thinking that FTS is just to look for
> filenames :-) You can use FTS to look for specific text content in a
> text file, or an album artist in a music file, or filenames with a 
> given
> extension...
>
> See this page to get a rough idea of what FTS supports:
> https://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Documentation/Examples/SPARQL/FTS
>
> Cheers,

Note that you can always add an additional filter
fn:contains(?filename, "foobar") to support searching whatever part of
the filename... Doesn't needle have a "match in filename" mode? I'm
pretty sure there is a button to do that.

Cheers

Adrien