No, SWISH-E does not display context for the results.  There has been at
some point the idea of adding this feature, and it is in the "think about
it" file, but I am not sure when and if it will really be implemented. 

Giulia

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On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Mark Fuller-ACUS10 wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 8:28:46 -0800, pjl@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov wrote:
> >On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Mark Fuller-ACUS10 wrote:
> >
> >> Does SWISH-E have the ability to display the context of found results? 
> >> If not, are there any plans to include this functionality?
> >
> >	I certainly don't plan on adding it to SWISH++ since it would
> >	balloon the size of the index file enormously.
> 
> I was thinking more about Swish-E.  (I assume from this response
> Swish-E doesn't display context?).  I don't know what sort of overhead
> would be involved.  I believe GLIMPSE shows context, but not sure how
> the index size compares to Swish-E, but they don't seem ridiculous in
> size.  If such were possible in Swish-E it would be nice to have it as
> a configurable option at least 
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> 
>