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Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
writes:

> After reading all the docs and a few experiments I don't see how to do 
> searches on partial words. If I missed the fine manual mentioning that 
> I'd be glad to RTFM, just please point me to the right FM :)

That's OK - I asked the same question once.

Use '*'.

For example, Obam* should match "Obama".