[X4U] Spotlight - Searching with boolean operators

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Tue Jul 12 14:33:56 PDT 2005


On 07/12/05, Richard Gilmore <rgilmor at uwo.ca> wrote:
>> Kirk wrote:
>> In any case, I have it directly from Apple that this is "accidental"
>> and, in any case, will not be supported in the future.
>
> Why wouldn't this be supported in the future? It seems like it would be a
> very useful search option?

Probably, not supported means Spotlight won't be using parentheses and
spaces, whereas supported will mean using either the words (AND, OR, or
NOT) or their comparable operators (+, -, or ~).


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