Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] natural language date range search

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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] natural language date range search\r
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+On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:53:27 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:\r
+> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:05:44 +0200, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:\r
+\r
+[ ... ]\r
+\r
+> > \r
+> > By seeing the thoughts thrown in IRC there seems to be plenty if things\r
+> > to resolve until something like this is going to be available in stock\r
+> > notmuch. In the meanwhile I provide some ideas into the soup; maybe\r
+> > our collective mind can have some use of this.\r
+> > \r
+> > \r
+> > Q: Could 'date:timestr' be converted to 'date:timestr..timestr' ?\r
+> \r
+> AFAICT this would require the custom query parser.\r
+\r
+So, maybe someday... :)\r
+\r
+> > In this idea -<timestr> means relative time and <timestr> absolute\r
+> > time. The the time string consists of number and letter and assume\r
+> > the above suggestion for date:timestr (<- == date:timestr..timestr)\r
+> > Letters are s seconds  h hours  d days  w weeks  m months (more\r
+> > useful than for minutes) and  y years.\r
+> \r
+> I'll put it bluntly: show me the code! ;)\r
+\r
+I would not have expected nothing less ;)\r
+\r
+> I'll comment below how your examples can be expressed with working code\r
+> in this series, just for comparison, and to show what can be done with\r
+> this.\r
+\r
+Great! Those features suits to my needs just fine; last day is most often\r
+needed, then parhaps I jump to one week. 5w is good for ~one month. \r
+More "absolute" times (like last november / since last november) are so\r
+seldomly needed that writing a bit more is not an issue :D\r
+\r
+[ ... ]\r
+\r
+> \r
+> BR,\r
+> Jani.\r
+\r
+Tomi\r