From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 14:57:37 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Re: [RFC] lib: add support for date:<query>..! to mean date:<query>..<query>
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Re: [RFC] lib: add support for date:<query>..! to mean date:<query>..<query>
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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: [RFC] lib: add support for date:<query>..! to mean
+ date:<query>..<query>
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+Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:
+
+> Up to debate:
+>
+> 1) Is something like this useful at all as an intermediate step before
+> we can have support for date:<query>? (This can be done with a future
+> version of Xapian, or with a custom query query parser.)
+>
+> 2) If yes, are there better alternatives to "!" as the end point? (Or
+> should the special case be the start point?) Also "@" and "same" have
+> been suggested. Examples: date:yesterday..! date:today..@
+> date:@..monday date:january..same.
+>
+
+>From the comments I guess it just needs a small man page update.
+
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