From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:55:02 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: add support for date:<expr>..! to mean date:<expr>..<expr>
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Re: [PATCH] lib: add support for date:<expr>..! to mean date:<expr>..<expr>
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+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>,
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: add support for date:<expr>..! to mean
+ date:<expr>..<expr>
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+On Sat, Sep 26 2015, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
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+> Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:
+>
+>> It doesn't seem likely we can support simple date:<expr> expanding to
+>> date:<expr>..<expr> any time soon. (This can be done with a future
+>> version of Xapian, or with a custom query query parser.) In the mean
+>> time, provide shorthand date:<expr>..! to mean the same. This is
+>> useful, as the expansion takes place before interpetation, and we can
+>> use, for example, date:yesterday..! to match from beginning of
+>> yesterday to end of yesterday.
+>
+> pushed. At some point we probably want a NEWS item.
+
+If it is in the NEWS, it is perpetual, otoh if only in documentation we
+could theoretically deprecate and remove it easier in the future ... ;p
+
+> d
+
+Tomi