Re: [PATCH] lib: add support for date:<expr>..! to mean date:<expr>..<expr>

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: add support for date:<expr>..! to mean\r
+ date:<expr>..<expr>\r
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+Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:\r
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+> 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
+d\r