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In the query box you can specify keywords (e.g. "Whitney", "trail", "dark"), boolean operators ("and", "or", "not") and parenthesis ("(" and ")"). Keywords separated by spaces are equivalent to keywords separated by "and". The database searches for files containing WORDS that match your pattern (as opposed to files containing LINES which match all the words of your pattern).
For example,
trail and dark
or
dark trail
will find files containing BOTH "trail" AND "dark", even if the words are not
right together or in that order. As an example of a negated pattern,
trail and not whitney
will find files which mention the word "trail" but do NOT contain the word "whitney".
You can mix "and" with "or", but you might not expect the result you get:
whitney or trail and dark
finds both files which contain "whitney" and also "dark",
and files which contain "trail" and also "dark".
To be sure about how the boolean operators interact, use parentheses:
whitney or (trail and dark)
finds files which contain either "whitney", regardless of the other words,
or files which contain both "trail" and "dark" even if whitney is not mentioned.
NOTE: Words which occur in a high percentage of files at Climber.Org will be eliminated from the search engine to save time. If you type these words in, they will be silently deleted from the search... so cut the searcher some slack if you get a hit on a file that doesn't have one of your search words (but let us know if you don't think it's a common word that was ignored).
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