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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: $(date ...)..$(date ...) request from Emacs\r
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+On Sat, Aug 24 2013, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:\r
+\r
+> Hi again,\r
+>\r
+> notmuch search $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)\r
+>\r
+> works wonders from the command line, but not from within Emacs:\r
+>\r
+> M-x notmuch-search RET $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)\r
+\r
+there is no shell expansion done to the string... \r
+\r
+... however\r
+\r
+M-x notmuch-search RET date:2009-10-01..2009-10-02\r
+\r
+should do it (provided you have at least notmuch 0.15 (or so))\r
+\r
+Tomi\r
+\r
+\r
+>\r
+> [Sat Aug 24 12:39:15 2013]\r
+> A Xapian exception occurred performing query: Unknown range operation\r
+> Query string was: $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)\r
+> command: notmuch search --format\=sexp --format-version\=1 --sort\=newest-first \$\(date\ \+\%s\ -d\ 2009-10-01\)..\$\(date\ \+\%s\ -d\ 2009-10-02\)\r
+> exit status: 1\r
+> stderr:\r
+> A Xapian exception occurred performing query: Unknown range operation\r
+> Query string was: $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)\r
+>\r
+> I see --format=sexp -- does that mean we need to protect those\r
+> kinds of requests somehow?\r
+>\r
+> Thanks for your help!\r
+>\r
+> -- \r
+> Bastien\r
+>\r
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