On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 12:51:32PM +0800, Paul Goyette wrote: > I'm continually bitten by the "stemming" that occurs. Today's example > is an attempt to find all the man pages that refer to file system lfs. > Using "apropos lfs" returns more than 120 entries, complete with their > associated context! The vast majority of those entries are really for > "lf" (in either upper- or lower-case), and have no relation to lfs the > file system! > > Would it be unreasonable to add a no-stem option to apropos(1)?
It's not that easy as it would require building a complete second FTS index. The better approach I think is to just build a black list of words that shouldn't be stemmed. Joerg
