[X4U] Spotlight - Searching with boolean operators

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Jul 12, 2005, at 11:33 PM, John Baltutis 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 ~).

Exactly.


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