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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: add support for date:<expr>..! to mean\r
+ date:<expr>..<expr>\r
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+On Sat, Sep 26 2015, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\r
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+> Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:\r
+>\r
+>> It doesn't seem likely we can support simple date:<expr> expanding to\r
+>> date:<expr>..<expr> any time soon. (This can be done with a future\r
+>> version of Xapian, or with a custom query query parser.) In the mean\r
+>> time, provide shorthand date:<expr>..! to mean the same. This is\r
+>> useful, as the expansion takes place before interpetation, and we can\r
+>> use, for example, date:yesterday..! to match from beginning of\r
+>> yesterday to end of yesterday.\r
+>\r
+> pushed. At some point we probably want a NEWS item.\r
+\r
+If it is in the NEWS, it is perpetual, otoh if only in documentation we\r
+could theoretically deprecate and remove it easier in the future ... ;p\r
+\r
+> d\r
+\r
+Tomi\r