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<th colspan="3" align="center">Recoll user manual</th>
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<td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 3. Searching</td>
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<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="RCL.SEARCH.RESLIST" name="RCL.SEARCH.RESLIST">3.2. The result
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<p>After starting a search, a list of results will instantly be displayed in the main
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<p>By default, the document list is presented in order of relevance (how well the system
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estimates that the document matches the query). You can specify a different ordering by
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using the <a href="rcl.search.sort.html"><span class="GUILABEL">Tools</span> / <span
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class="GUILABEL">Sort parameters</span></a> dialog.</p>
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<p>Clicking on the <tt class="LITERAL">Preview</tt> link for an entry will open an
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internal preview window for the document. Further <tt class="LITERAL">Preview</tt> clicks
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for the same search will open tabs in the existing preview window. You can use <b
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class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+Click to force the creation of another preview window, which may
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be useful to view the documents side by side. (You can also browse successive results in
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a single preview window by typing <b class="KEYCAP">Shift</b>+<b
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class="KEYCAP">ArrowUp/Down</b> in the window).</p>
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<p>Clicking the <tt class="LITERAL">Edit</tt> link will attempt to start an external
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viewer. The viewers can be configured through the user preferences dialog, or by editing
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the <tt class="FILENAME">mimeview</tt> configuration file.</p>
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<p>The <tt class="LITERAL">Preview</tt> and <tt class="LITERAL">Edit</tt> edit links may
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not be present for all entries, meaning that <b class="APPLICATION">Recoll</b> has no
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configured way to preview a given file type (which was indexed by name only), or no
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configured external viewer for the file type. This can sometimes be adjusted simply by
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tweaking the <a href="rcl.install.config.html#RCLINSTALL.CONFIG.MIMEMAP"><tt
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class="FILENAME">mimemap</tt></a> and <a
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href="rcl.install.config.html#RCLINSTALL.CONFIG.MIMEVIEW"><tt
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class="FILENAME">mimeview</tt></a> configuration files (the latter can be modified with
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the user preferences dialog).</p>
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<p>You can click on the <tt class="LITERAL">Query details</tt> link at the top of the
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results page to see the query actually performed, after stem expansion and other
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<p>Double-clicking on any word inside the result list or a preview window will insert it
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into the simple search text.</p>
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<p>The result list is divided into pages (the size of which you can change in the
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preferences). Use the arrow buttons in the toolbar or the links at the bottom of the page
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to browse the results.</p>
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<h2 class="SECT2"><a id="RCL.SEARCH.RESULTLIST.MENU"
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name="RCL.SEARCH.RESULTLIST.MENU">3.2.1. The result list right-click menu</a></h2>
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<p>Apart from the preview and edit links, you can display a pop-up menu by right-clicking
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over a paragraph in the result list. This menu has the following entries:</p>
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<p><span class="GUILABEL">Preview</span></p>
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<p><span class="GUILABEL">Edit</span></p>
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<p><span class="GUILABEL">Copy File Name</span></p>
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<p><span class="GUILABEL">Copy Url</span></p>
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<p><span class="GUILABEL">Find similar</span></p>
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<p><span class="GUILABEL">Find similar</span></p>
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<p><span class="GUILABEL">Parent document</span></p>
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<p>The <span class="GUILABEL">Preview</span> and <span class="GUILABEL">Edit</span>
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entries do the same thing as the corresponding links.</p>
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<p>The <span class="GUILABEL">Copy File Name</span> and <span class="GUILABEL">Copy
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Url</span> copy the relevant data to the clipboard, for later pasting.</p>
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<p>The <span class="GUILABEL">Find similar</span> entry will select a number of relevant
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term from the current document and enter them into the simple search field. You can then
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start a simple search, with a good chance of finding documents related to the current
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<p>The <span class="GUILABEL">Parent document</span> entry will appear for documents
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which are not actually files but are part of, or attached to, a higher level document.
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This entry is mainly useful for email attachments and permits viewing the message to
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which the document is attached. Note that the entry will also appear for an email which
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is part of an mbox folder file, but that you can't actually visualize the folder (there
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will be an error dialog if you try). <b class="APPLICATION">Recoll</b> is unfortunately
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not yet smart enough to disable the entry in this case.</p>
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