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22 From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
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23 To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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24 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] natural language date range search
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51 On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:53:27 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
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52 > On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:05:44 +0200, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
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57 > > By seeing the thoughts thrown in IRC there seems to be plenty if things
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58 > > to resolve until something like this is going to be available in stock
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59 > > notmuch. In the meanwhile I provide some ideas into the soup; maybe
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60 > > our collective mind can have some use of this.
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63 > > Q: Could 'date:timestr' be converted to 'date:timestr..timestr' ?
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65 > AFAICT this would require the custom query parser.
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67 So, maybe someday... :)
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69 > > In this idea -<timestr> means relative time and <timestr> absolute
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70 > > time. The the time string consists of number and letter and assume
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71 > > the above suggestion for date:timestr (<- == date:timestr..timestr)
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72 > > Letters are s seconds h hours d days w weeks m months (more
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73 > > useful than for minutes) and y years.
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75 > I'll put it bluntly: show me the code! ;)
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77 I would not have expected nothing less ;)
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79 > I'll comment below how your examples can be expressed with working code
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80 > in this series, just for comparison, and to show what can be done with
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83 Great! Those features suits to my needs just fine; last day is most often
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84 needed, then parhaps I jump to one week. 5w is good for ~one month.
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85 More "absolute" times (like last november / since last november) are so
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86 seldomly needed that writing a bit more is not an issue :D
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