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+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [RFC] lib: add support for date:<query>..! to mean\r
+ date:<query>..<query>\r
+Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 14:55:59 +0200\r
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+Up to debate:\r
+\r
+1) Is something like this useful at all as an intermediate step before\r
+we can have support for date:<query>? (This can be done with a future\r
+version of Xapian, or with a custom query query parser.)\r
+\r
+2) If yes, are there better alternatives to "!" as the end point? (Or\r
+should the special case be the start point?) Also "@" and "same" have\r
+been suggested. Examples: date:yesterday..! date:today..@\r
+date:@..monday date:january..same.\r
+\r
+Idea from Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>.\r
+---\r
+ lib/parse-time-vrp.cc | 5 +++++\r
+ test/T500-search-date.sh | 4 ++++\r
+ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/lib/parse-time-vrp.cc b/lib/parse-time-vrp.cc\r
+index 33f07db3410e..03804cf50fa8 100644\r
+--- a/lib/parse-time-vrp.cc\r
++++ b/lib/parse-time-vrp.cc\r
+@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Xapian::valueno\r
+ ParseTimeValueRangeProcessor::operator() (std::string &begin, std::string &end)\r
+ {\r
+ time_t t, now;\r
++ std::string b;\r
+ \r
+ /* Require date: prefix in start of the range... */\r
+ if (STRNCMP_LITERAL (begin.c_str (), PREFIX))\r
+@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ ParseTimeValueRangeProcessor::operator() (std::string &begin, std::string &end)\r
+ \r
+ /* ...and remove it. */\r
+ begin.erase (0, sizeof (PREFIX) - 1);\r
++ b = begin;\r
+ \r
+ /* Use the same 'now' for begin and end. */\r
+ if (time (&now) == (time_t) -1)\r
+@@ -51,6 +53,9 @@ ParseTimeValueRangeProcessor::operator() (std::string &begin, std::string &end)\r
+ }\r
+ \r
+ if (!end.empty ()) {\r
++ if (end == "!" && ! b.empty ())\r
++ end = b;\r
++\r
+ if (parse_time_string (end.c_str (), &t, &now, PARSE_TIME_ROUND_UP_INCLUSIVE))\r
+ return Xapian::BAD_VALUENO;\r
+ \r
+diff --git a/test/T500-search-date.sh b/test/T500-search-date.sh\r
+index 70bcf344b4f7..18a47b114fa9 100755\r
+--- a/test/T500-search-date.sh\r
++++ b/test/T500-search-date.sh\r
+@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ test_begin_subtest "Absolute date range"\r
+ output=$(notmuch search date:2010-12-16..12/16/2010 | notmuch_search_sanitize)\r
+ test_expect_equal "$output" "thread:XXX 2010-12-16 [1/1] Olivier Berger; Essai accentué (inbox unread)"\r
+ \r
++test_begin_subtest "Absolute date range with 'same' operator"\r
++output=$(notmuch search date:2010-12-16..! | notmuch_search_sanitize)\r
++test_expect_equal "$output" "thread:XXX 2010-12-16 [1/1] Olivier Berger; Essai accentué (inbox unread)"\r
++\r
+ test_begin_subtest "Absolute time range with TZ"\r
+ notmuch search date:18-Nov-2009_02:19:26-0800..2009-11-18_04:49:52-06:00 | notmuch_search_sanitize > OUTPUT\r
+ cat <<EOF >EXPECTED\r
+-- \r
+2.1.4\r
+\r