Index: lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/classic/package.html =================================================================== --- lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/classic/package.html (revision 1438401) +++ lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/classic/package.html (working copy) @@ -167,11 +167,11 @@ If you want to find the document entitled "The Right Way" which contains the text "don't go this way", you can enter: 

title:"The Right Way" AND text:go

or

-
title:"Do it right" AND right
+
title:"The Right Way" AND go

Since text is the default field, the field indicator is not required.

Note: The field is only valid for the term that it directly precedes, so the query

-
title:Do it right
-

Will only find "Do" in the title field. It will find "it" and "right" in the default field (in this case the text field).

+
title:The Right Way
+

Will only find "The" in the title field. It will find "Right" and "Way" in the default field (in this case the text field).