Main guide: clarify meaning of plain keyword query

Fixes #2463.
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Adrian Sampson 2017-03-01 20:22:30 -05:00
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@ -238,7 +238,9 @@ songs. Thus::
$ beet ls album:bird
The Mae Shi - Terrorbird - Revelation Six
As you can see, search terms by default search all attributes of songs. (They're
By default, a search term will match any of a handful of :ref:`common
attributes <keywordquery>` of songs.
(They're
also implicitly joined by ANDs: a track must match *all* criteria in order to
match the query.) To narrow a search term to a particular metadata field, just
put the field before the term, separated by a : character. So ``album:bird``

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@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ searches that select tracks and albums from your library. This page explains the
query string syntax, which is meant to vaguely resemble the syntax used by Web
search engines.
.. _keywordquery:
Keyword
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