[sword-devel] Comming soon: new improved sword searching

Nikolay Igotti sword-devel@crosswire.org
Mon, 9 Sep 2002 14:31:18 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Joel Mawhorter wrote:

> Verses are arbitrary and man made but they are a useful tool and they are the 
> mechanism that everybody who uses the Bible is used to so I would rather 
> stick with this. One of the features I mentioned in my first email is a 
> proximity and operator. This would allow searching within a certain, user 
> specified, number of verses. Here is the example I gave:
> 
> "For example, ("lamb of God", Jesus, "take away", sins @3) will find all 
> combinations of verses within 3 of each other that have all the search terms 
 Could you suggest similar pattern to find all verses containing some set 
of words but not another one, like
 +God +created -man -woman
in google-like style.

  Nikolay.