[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > A lot of folks who do "power searches," say, librarians or other trained > researchers, familiar with the bells and whistles of more powerful search > engines, will want a simple operator for proximity, with the ability to > specify proximity depth: > > For example: > > Lexis-Nexis: Sean w/2 Upton (where w/2 is within 2 words) > Also, lexis doesn't count stop-words in proximity > indexes. > Folio/Nextpage: "Sean Upton"@2 > > IMHO, the syntax is clean and very brief in the Lexis-Nexis case and should > suppliment a more generic > Sean ... Upton > style search. I do not think, it is a good idea to have an infix operator for proximity searches. This combines just 2 words but proximity searches may involve more than two words: a set of words, near together (e.g. in one paragraph, sentence, within x words). Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
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