At 04:16 AM 02/07/00 -0800, Michiel Dethmers wrote:
>This roque stopword "and" discussion reminded me of a problem I 
>have with too common words. If you search on a word which by 
>itself would return "word too common", but you "and" it with 
>another search word it doesn't return any results. Makes sense, 
>but it would be nice for the user to give an error of the kind. "one or 
>more search words too common". Anyone else experienced this? 

A few quick printf() statements lead me to:

In config.h

#define IGNORE_STOPWORDS_IN_QUERY 0

BTW -- I think there's a bug when that's set to 1.  On my Win32 version
Swish  crashes when it's set to one, and I search for a common word and
another word.  For example, if 'stop' is a stop word and I search for 'stop
and word'.
 
I'm not clear why that IGNORE_STOPWORDS_IN_QUERY was added.
 

Bill Moseley
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