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and describes the installation and use of the
<span class="application">Recoll</span> application.
This version describes <span class=
"application">Recoll</span> 1.24.</p>
"application">Recoll</span> 1.25.</p>
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<p>This document introduces full text search notions and
describes the installation and use of the <span class=
"application">Recoll</span> application. It is updated for
<span class="application">Recoll</span> 1.24.</p>
<span class="application">Recoll</span> 1.25.</p>
<p><span class="application">Recoll</span> was for a long
time dedicated to Unix-like systems. It was only lately
(2015) ported to <span class="application">MS-Windows</span>.
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directives, this will look for documents containing all
of the search terms (the ones with more terms will get
better scores), just like the <span class="guilabel">All
terms</span> mode which will ignore such directives.
<span class="guilabel">Any term</span> will search for
documents where at least one of the terms appear.</p>
terms</span> mode. <span class="guilabel">Any term</span>
will search for documents where at least one of the terms
appear.</p>
<p>The <span class="guilabel">Query Language</span>
features are described in <a class="link" href=
"#RCL.SEARCH.LANG" title="3.6.&nbsp;The query language">a
separate section</a>.</p>
<p>All search modes allow wildcards inside terms
(<code class="literal">*</code>, <code class=
"literal">?</code>, <code class="literal">[]</code>). You
may want to have a look at the <a class="link" href=
<p>All search modes allow terms to be expanded with
wildcards characters (<code class="literal">*</code>,
<code class="literal">?</code>, <code class=
"literal">[]</code>). See the <a class="link" href=
"#RCL.SEARCH.WILDCARDS" title=
"3.8.1.&nbsp;More about wildcards">section about
wildcards</a> for more information about this.</p>
<p><span class="guilabel">File name</span> will
specifically look for file names. The point of having a
separate file name search is that wild card expansion can
be performed more efficiently on a small subset of the
index (allowing wild cards on the left of terms without
excessive penality). Things to know:</p>
wildcards</a> for more details.</p>
<p>The <span class="guilabel">File name</span> search
mode will specifically look for file names. The point of
having a separate file name search is that wild card
expansion can be performed more efficiently on a small
subset of the index (allowing wild cards on the left of
terms without excessive penality). Things to know:</p>
<div class="itemizedlist">
<ul class="itemizedlist" style=
"list-style-type: disc;">
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<p>You can search for exact phrases (adjacent words in a
given order) by enclosing the input inside double quotes.
Ex: <code class="literal">"virtual reality"</code>.</p>
<p>When using a stripped index, character case has no
influence on search, except that you can disable stem
expansion for any term by capitalizing it. Ie: a search
for <code class="literal">floor</code> will also normally
look for <code class="literal">flooring</code>,
<code class="literal">floored</code>, etc., but a search
for <code class="literal">Floor</code> will only look for
<p>In all modes except <span class="guilabel">File
name</span>, you can search for exact phrases (adjacent
words in a given order) by enclosing the input inside
double quotes. Ex: <code class="literal">"virtual
reality"</code>.</p>
<p>When using a stripped index (the default), character
case has no influence on search, except that you can
disable stem expansion for any term by capitalizing it.
Ie: a search for <code class="literal">floor</code> will
also normally look for <code class=
"literal">flooring</code>, <code class=
"literal">floored</code>, etc., but a search for
<code class="literal">Floor</code> will only look for
<code class="literal">floor</code>, in any character
case. Stemming can also be disabled globally in the
preferences. When using a raw index, <a class="link"
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"3.7.&nbsp;Search case and diacritics sensitivity">the
rules are a bit more complicated</a>.</p>
<p><span class="application">Recoll</span> remembers the
last few searches that you performed. You can use the
simple search text entry widget (a combobox) to recall
them (click on the thing at the right of the text field).
Please note, however, that only the search texts are
remembered, not the mode (all/any/file name).</p>
<p>Typing <span class=
"keycap"><strong>Esc</strong></span> <span class=
"keycap"><strong>Space</strong></span> while entering a
word in the simple search entry will open a window with
possible completions for the word. The completions are
extracted from the database.</p>
last few searches that you performed. You can directly
access the search history by clicking the clock button on
the right of the search entry, while the latter is empty.
Otherwise, the history is used for entry completion (see
next). Only the search texts are remembered, not the mode
(all/any/file name).</p>
<p>While text is entered in the search area, <span class=
"command"><strong>recoll</strong></span> will display
possible completions, filtered from the history and the
index search terms. This can be disabled with a GUI
Preferences option.</p>
<p>Double-clicking on a word in the result list or a
preview window will insert it into the simple search
entry field.</p>
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</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p><span class="guilabel">Choose editor
applicationsr</span>: this opens a dialog which
application</span>: this opens a dialog which
allows you to select the application to be used to
open each MIME type. The default is nornally to use
the <span class=
open each MIME type. The default is to use the
<span class=
"command"><strong>xdg-open</strong></span> utility,
but you can override it.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p><span class="guilabel">Exceptions</span>: even
wen <span class=
"command"><strong>xdg-open</strong></span> is used
by default for opening documents, you can set
but you can use this dialog to override it, setting
exceptions for MIME types that will still be opened
according to <span class=
"application">Recoll</span> preferences. This is
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"command"><strong>xdg-open</strong></span> which
only supports passing one parameter.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p><span class="guilabel">Disable Qt autocompletion
in search entry</span>: this will disable the
completion popup. Il will only appear, and display
the full history, either if you enter only white
space in the search area, or if you click the clock
button on the right of the area.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p><span class="guilabel">Document filter choice
style</span>: this will let you choose if the
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Language</code>, or the value in use when the
program last exited.</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p><span class="guilabel">Auto-start simple search
on white space entry</span>: if this is checked, a
search will be executed each time you enter a space
in the simple search input field. This lets you
look at the result list as you enter new terms.
This is off by default, you may like it or
not...</p>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<p><span class="guilabel">Start with advanced
search dialog open</span> : If you use this dialog