From d5e911c6529eb4e12df65f2e02821050a6e62cac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:10:50 +2100 Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] lib: add date range query support --- 27/d45811b98ded7ba54338b11e31ba3844d15bd9 | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+) create mode 100644 27/d45811b98ded7ba54338b11e31ba3844d15bd9 diff --git a/27/d45811b98ded7ba54338b11e31ba3844d15bd9 b/27/d45811b98ded7ba54338b11e31ba3844d15bd9 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9b04fa6ce --- /dev/null +++ b/27/d45811b98ded7ba54338b11e31ba3844d15bd9 @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FE4431FAF + for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:10:58 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id 156WB7W835uZ for ; + Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:10:57 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC1F8431FAE + for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:10:57 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from convex-new.cs.unb.ca ([131.202.245.35]) + by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa + (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) + (envelope-from ) + id 1TDduS-00048n-5j; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:10:56 -0300 +Received: from bremner by convex-new.cs.unb.ca with local (Exim 4.80) + (envelope-from ) + id 1TDduM-0002tm-Ps; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:10:50 -0300 +From: David Bremner +To: Michal Nazarewicz , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] lib: add date range query support +In-Reply-To: +References: + <532340d05ea748518c021048900bb83149e04e88.1347484177.git.jani@nikula.org> + <878vce5cip.fsf@zancas.localnet> + +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.14+20~g69843dd (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.2.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:10:50 -0300 +Message-ID: <87obl4fx4l.fsf@convex-new.cs.unb.ca> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 +Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +X-Spam_bar: - +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:10:58 -0000 + +Michal Nazarewicz writes: + +> On Thu, Sep 13 2012, David Bremner wrote: +>> I don't find ranges being half-open by default to be very +>> intuitive. Perhaps I don't program in python enough. +[snip] +> date:2012/01/01..2012/01/01 + 1 day +> +> in my opinion, that should give results from the first of January only, +> since =E2=80=9C+ 1 day=E2=80=9D indicates in a way how long user want the= + period to be. + +Sorry, still not convinced. My comment about python was more or less a +joke; I get the analogy with C, but (1) I don't think C is a reasonable +UI guide, and (2), at least in the C case, the half openness of the +range is explicitly given by the operators used. + +d -- 2.26.2