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Most it's the typical 'it cannot be so hard, there is a plugin for it' problem - if you do text searches, you should know the basics (and stop-words). This problem even has the first place in the gotchas list. I hate to answer with 'RTFM' but this is one of the cases where it applies. We are talking about removing a sane default just because no one gets it. Greetings Florian Benjamin Krause wrote: > On Apr 6, 2007, at 09:45, David Balmain wrote: > >> So what do people think? Should stop-words be filtered by default? > > yes.. but i guess the problem is, that most people doesn't know about > analyzers and therefore will not see the relation between stop-words > and the standard analyzer. > > afaic, the default behavior should be with stop-word-filtering, because > searching is about full-text-search in the first place. as soon as > you want > to do special things like searching for names, you should understand > ferrets fields and analyzers, because if you don't any result will be > coincidental anyway. > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGFhu38RlGMqQ8m7oRAhmmAJ4l200bUi2UHuXXS7WconbelN6Q7ACfb1SQ SGPIFWwEHFEcBhrHeu28TL4= =B+YM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
