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doc: add material on stemming and wildcards
This is lightly massaged from the searching page on the wiki.
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shell, (such as by putting quotation marks around any parenthesized
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shell, (such as by putting quotation marks around any parenthesized
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Stemming
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**Stemming** in notmuch means that these searches
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notmuch search detailed
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notmuch search details
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notmuch search detail
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will all return identical results, because Xapian first "reduces" the
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term to the common stem (here 'detail') and then performs the search.
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There are two ways to turn this off: a search for a capitalized word
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will be performed unstemmed, so that one can search for "John" and not
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get results for "Johnson"; phrase searches are also unstemmed (see
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below for details). Stemming is currently only supported for
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English. Searches for words in other languages will be performed unstemmed.
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Wildcards
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It is possible to use a trailing '\*' as a wildcard. A search for
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'wildc\*' will match 'wildcard', 'wildcat', etc.
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Boolean and Probabilistic Prefixes
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Boolean and Probabilistic Prefixes
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