What does suffix colon `:` mean in query?

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What does suffix colon `:` mean in query? #16

Closed snowman closed 3 years ago

snowman commented 3 years ago

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snowman commented 3 years ago

Does it literally match : or just a separator?

hasu commented 3 years ago

In the picture the : is not a part of the query, it's just used as a separator between the query and the filter string in the UI.

What it does in a query is really a Xapian query parser question, but at the end of a query it makes no difference as far as I know. As a word separator it appears to produce a phrase.