'and',
'not', and the letters '(',
'=', and ')'.
The more words you provied the better is the chance to find what
you are looking for.
Name, Synopsis, Text, and
Author. All but Text correspond to the
POD section with the same name.
So just entering perlrun, in the Name
field, you should only get one hit: The perlrun
manual in the perl distribution. Try it.
There are some differences what is considered as a hit depending
on which section is searched. The most notable section is the
Author field, where a phonetic match is sufficient
for a hit. If you enter 'ilia' you will find
'Ilya' also. Don't be worried about to much hits. The
hits which match literal will aways be ranked above the phonetics
matches. Try it.
The Text fields is special in that words there are
searched in any POD section. If you are lazy, just enter your text
there.
The text field can also be used for more elaborate searches. See
below.
'and'
and the binary 'not' operator.
mortality not perlguts.
Two words are implicite combined with or if no other
operator is given. You can use '(' and
')' for grouping.
(html http) and encoding.
Text field to search in other fields
not supported by the form.
The following sections are known by WAIT:
The 'text' sections is a fake section which takes
everything that did not make it to another section.
You can specify the field to search using '='. Any
unambiguous truncations of field names are valid:
env=PERL5DB.
If you feel that this help is too short now, You are welcome
to contribute additions ;-)