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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.

d