A lot of people were unhappy that the old search defaulted to OR
, and I agreed.
With the change of Stack Exchange's search engine it now defaults to AND
and everybody is happy.
But actually sometimes I do want to use OR
. There's plenty of concepts that can be expressed in different ways or with different vocabulary. In these cases I like to use OR
between synonyms:
url OR uri schema OR protocol
seek OR fseek
options OR prefs OR preferences OR settings OR config
folder OR dir OR directory
parameter OR param OR argument OR arg
I've tried or
, OR
, and |
but none seem to work. Nothing is mentioned under "Advanced Search Tips".
(I'm tagging support
in case it's there but I can't find it and feature-request
in case it's not there.)
-term
for forbidden and+term
for required, but that doesn’t quite seem to work. I think the forbidden may work though.