Esa Ahola (esa@cyclone.mindspring.com)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:27:37 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Greg Taunt wrote:
> I've noticed that I can't match a partial word-- for example, if I type
> in weath, it won't find weather. Is there any way to configure it to
> find partial word matches?
There's a word endings fuzzy algorithm which works nicely, but is not
exactly the same as an arbitrary prefix match.
I have recently added such prefix matching to htdig. To get reasonable
performance (and any performance at all on very large word indices) it
requires replacing gdbm with a btree database such as Berkeley DB.
I have an unofficial/unsupported patch available for the adventurous,
while I'm awaiting word from Andrew regarding his interest in integrating
my tweaks.
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