: The admin screen is made for doing a quick query against the default field : with the settings defined in the default search handler. To that end, it : assumes that all entered characters should be part of the search string, so it : encodes them accordingly.
correct ... that text box in question is simply the "q" param, and relies on defaults for everything else. that is intentional. if you want to craft the url manally (using multiple params and taking care of your own escaping) you can do that directly in hte location bar -- no need to type anything into the query form. -Hoss
