Searching for phrases in the body of an email

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 12:34:16PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Suvayu Ali
> <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Of course this does not help me solve my original goal, but I guess now
> > I can try different queries based on your idea.
> 
> Ah I see. Your goal is to search for phrases close to "no plain text".
> But if you use fuzzy searching but an exact grep, then it is normal
> that the numbers are not consistent, no? Because your grep is not
> fuzzy.

My grep was this (case insensitive): 'plain[[:space:]/]+text'.  Since I
thought I was searching for the _phrase_ "plain text", that would be
adequately fuzzy.  However after following Jani's advice, I realise it
wasn't always being treated as a phrase, neither was NEAR being treated
as an operator.  

I wanted to combine a phrase (plain text) with the NEAR query (NEAR no),
but maybe that combination is not possible.  That's why I tried to
combine NEAR and ADJ (as per your suggestion) by grouping them, that
does not seem to work either!

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Suvayu

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