Re: how the date query works?

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+From: David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch>\r
+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>\r
+Subject: Re: how the date query works?\r
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+thanks to everybody. i have completely missed that man page.\r
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+Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:\r
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+> On Mon, 20 May 2013, David Belohrad <david@belohrad.ch> wrote:\r
+>> When I open in emacs search, and I type 'date:today', some output\r
+>> appears, but not the one I would expect.\r
+>\r
+> The date: search expects a Xapian range expression, which requires ".."\r
+> to be present in the query. For example, date:today..today from\r
+> beginning of today to end of today, which I believe is what you're\r
+> after. Half open ranges are okay, too, so assuming you don't have much\r
+> mail from the future, simply date:today.. will do.\r
+>\r
+> Unfortunately, due to a limitation in Xapian, we can't flag an error or\r
+> do the right thing given a date: search without the range expression\r
+> ".."\r
+>\r
+>> Is there any kind of manual how to use it? I'm of course particularly\r
+>> interested in 'today', 'yesterday', 'last week', 'last month' :)\r
+>\r
+> The search terms manual page, 'man notmuch-search-terms', which is also\r
+> available at http://notmuchmail.org/manpages/notmuch-search-terms-7/\r
+> gives a pretty good summary on the date search, including the\r
+> limitations.\r
+>\r
+> HTH,\r
+> Jani.\r