Re: Searching for string that contain a "-" doesn't work in the LSR...

[Sebastiano Vigna]

On May 23, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:

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> There are several lilypond commands that contain a hyphen, but the LSR
> currently does not allow searching for them. Apparently, "-" is not  
> allowed
> in the search string:
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Search?q=on-the-fly
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> Would it be hard to allow also hyphens in the search?


Well, actually you just have to escape it with a backslash. Like 'on\- 
the\-fly'. The problem is that at that point you won't find anything  
because the index breaks words on hyphens, so the index contains "on",  
"the", and "fly".

I think breaking on hyphens is good because people often does not  
remember exactly complete commands. To search for on-the-fly you could  
search for 'on the fly'. This could be made into a feature by writing  
a custom parser that breaks words with hyphens into a phrasal query  
(so you write 'on-the-fly' but your real query is '"on the fly"').  
Maybe not exactly now, but I think I can do it if it seems a useful  
feature...

Ciao,

                                seba