Re: Syntactic sugar for range syntax

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+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: Robert =?utf-8?Q?K=C3=BCnnemann?= <robert@kunnemann.de>,\r
+ notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: Syntactic sugar for range syntax\r
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+Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:24:36 +0300\r
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+On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Robert K=C3=BCnnemann <robert@kunnemann.de> wrote:\r
+> I've been using notmuch for about a year now (using mutt-kz) and I am\r
+> very happy with it. I have, however, a small suggestion about the range\r
+> syntax in search queries. Often, I am looking for emails that have\r
+> occurred, say, in the last week. The query has the following form:\r
+>\r
+>  date:today-1week..today\r
+\r
+In other words, date:1w..\r
+\r
+The reference for relative dates is "now" if one is not specified. The\r
+minus sign means nothing, relative dates all refer to the past and are\r
+added together.\r
+\r
+> The following syntactic sugar could shorten this kind of queries:\r
+>=20=20\r
+>  date:r -> date:r..today, if r is a relative date\r
+\r
+You can use open ended queries date:since.. or date:..until to not limit\r
+the end or start time.\r
+\r
+>  date:a -> date:a..a, if a is an absolute date\r
+\r
+This needs support from Xapian, but we've discussed this in the past and\r
+agree on the semantics. There's a patch to make date:a..! mean the same\r
+in the mean time:\r
+\r
+http://mid.gmane.org/1425732959-2282-1-git-send-email-jani@nikula.org\r
+\r
+>  date:a-r -> date:a-r..a, for combination.\r
+\r
+I think this conflicts with the above.\r
+\r
+> (If r is interpreted as today-r, the first two transformations are\r
+> subsumed by the last.)\r
+>\r
+> For example:\r
+>  date:today -> date:today..today\r
+>  date:-1week -> date:-1week..today\r
+\r
+date:1w..\r
+\r
+>  date:24.12.2014-4w -> date:24.12.2014-4w..24.12.2014=20\r
+>\r
+> What do you think about this suggestion? Is this something notmuch would\r
+> do, or rather something for xapian?\r
+\r
+What we can do in notmuch is pretty limited unless we write a full blown\r
+custom query parser. Basically Xapian parses date: and .., and passes us\r
+the rest to figure out.\r
+\r
+\r
+HTH,\r
+Jani.\r
+\r
+\r
+>\r
+> With kind regards, Robert K=C3=BCnnemann\r
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