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Add -c <confdir> option to recoll and recollindex

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Dockes</holder>
</copyright>
<releaseinfo>$Id: usermanual.sgml,v 1.14 2006-06-24 07:40:04 dockes Exp $</releaseinfo>
<releaseinfo>$Id: usermanual.sgml,v 1.15 2006-09-08 09:02:47 dockes Exp $</releaseinfo>
<abstract>
<para>This document introduces full text search notions
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like to give &RCL; a try, just perform <link
linkend="rcl.install">installation</link> and start the
<command>recoll</command> user interface, which will index your
home directory and let you search it right after.</para>
home directory by default, allowing you to search immediately after
indexing completes.</para>
<para>Do not do this if your home has a huge
number of documents and you do not want to wait or are very
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<para>You do not need to remember in what file or email message you
stored a given piece of information. You just ask for related
terms, and the tool will return a list of documents where
those terms are prominent.</para>
those terms are prominent, in a similar way to internet search
engines.</para>
<para>This mode of operation has been made very familiar by internet
search engines.</para>
<para>The notion of relevance is a difficult one, as only you, the
user, actually know which documents are relevant to your search,
and the application can only try a guess. The quality of this
guess is probably the most important element for a search
application.</para>
<para>&RCL; tries to determine which documents are most relevant to
the search terms you provide. Computer algorithms for determining
relevance can be very complex, and in general are inferior to the
power of the human mind to rapidly determine relevance. The quality
of relevance guessing by the search tool is probably the most
important element for a search application.</para>
<para>In many cases, you are looking for all the forms of a
word, not for a specific form or spelling. These different
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reduce to the same stem). This expansion can be disabled at
search time.</para>
<para>Stemming, by itself, does not provide for misspellings or
phonetic searches. &RCL; currently does not support these.</para>
<para>Stemming, by itself, does not accomodate for misspellings or
phonetic searches. &RCL; currently does not support these
features.</para>
</sect1>
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files are kept in a directory named like
<filename>/usr/[local/]share/recoll/examples</filename>,
they define default values for the system. A parallel set of
files exists in the <filename>.recoll</filename> directory in
your home (this can be changed with the
<literal>RECOLL_CONFDIR</literal> environment variable.</para>
files exists by default in the <filename>.recoll</filename> directory
in your home. This directory can be changed with the
<literal>RECOLL_CONFDIR</literal> environment variable or the -c
option parameter to <command>recoll</command> and
<command>recollindex</command>.</para>
<para>If the <filename>.recoll</filename> directory does not
exist when <command>recoll</command> or
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<varlistentry><term><literal>dbdir</literal></term>
<listitem><para>The name of the Xapian data directory. It
will be created if needed when the index is
initialized. </para>
initialized. If this is not an absolute path, it will be
interpreted relative to the configuration directory.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>