The wording on the various options could use some explanation. I don't know what style regexes are permitted, for example. And I don't what all those "default spaces" options do.

As an example, how do I search for all nodes written by me that include "on" as a word? I thought \bon\b would work, but I tried both (indecipherable) settings below the box, and neither seemed to do it. The placement of the radiobuttons and the word "-or-" is particularly troublesome:

(separate {button} strings -or- regexes {button} with {blank} -- default is spaces)
Does that mean the buttons choose between strings, or perhaps regexes with spaces (or something else?), or does the button choose between strings or regexes, and then I can pick something (what?) in place of spaces?

Even just a 30-second blurb of "what the hell was I thinking when I wrote that" from the author would be useful at this point.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to new super search by merlyn

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