On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 03:43:01PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > 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.
BTW, one approach to start with such a black list would be to pick up all man page names that are stemmed to something different. Joerg
