From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D11B6DE0C1E for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:39:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.132 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.132 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.852, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id rFANH3VgGo8z for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-lb0-f173.google.com (mail-lb0-f173.google.com [209.85.217.173]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B58616DE0350 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:39:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by lbcga7 with SMTP id ga7so110534061lbc.1 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:39:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:subject:to:references:in-reply-to :user-agent:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=dYrxokUq8mlf32B+sqc4kOTslY96qHkMZJMhq8SiHaQ=; b=ck8xg1/lWKAorV8tQ2c1oX9HpFV/B1KkdklA8dCcAzNDU4eLRyKlPtBiuvpRly40O0 CGnTn8nWzxE4PCeOaq8WrW2iJEsE978huXacMuqLYsUvTxAaZcFW0kDIv3FYbFlXakUQ KveekAY/0SSh/TwJb7T61LIC9bJCAVeS0kOt3yoiewcNZRRfpmXGxf+Uc7Umcr5w3jpj g1XJl5XLeQDqYl7wV4kd4IzFCQCIrzL7BPx6oTft/k462w3kB81ru1xp+R0mQfgYOQYO cChgMgDjrDf6Us2AZ+/jwcZQtAvzHn1ee0RUwVy6e0Funy3+dPT15CIezjhRvqzDUQiV 4iww== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlSozyYuod0qDRwU6bxo0fzVSqJ/zQrncwSfMljWdGtSh54wjvDYjvL/P8Q/LznF9uzbSKm X-Received: by 10.152.8.17 with SMTP id n17mr10935025laa.63.1429432785129; Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (c7579BF51.dhcp.as2116.net. [81.191.121.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ot6sm3546417lbb.39.2015.04.19.01.39.42 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 19 Apr 2015 01:39:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 08:39:38 +0000 From: Gaute Hope Subject: Re: [RFC] lib: add support for date:..! to mean date:.. To: Mark Walters , Jani Nikula , notmuch@notmuchmail.org References: <1425732959-2282-1-git-send-email-jani@nikula.org> <87a8y6fuqw.fsf@qmul.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <87a8y6fuqw.fsf@qmul.ac.uk> User-Agent: astroid/vv0.2-30-gd7197a8b (https://github.com/gauteh/astroid) Message-Id: <1429432663-astroid-2-31s581p1zi-1230@strange> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 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: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 08:39:51 -0000 Excerpts from Mark Walters's message of April 17, 2015 20:57: >=20 > Hi >=20 > On Sat, 07 Mar 2015, Jani Nikula wrote: >> Up to debate: >> >> 1) Is something like this useful at all as an intermediate step before >> we can have support for date:? (This can be done with a future >> version of Xapian, or with a custom query query parser.) >=20 > This looks good to me. Yes it may not be needed in the future but the > patch is very small. It passes all tests. +1 from me. >=20 >> 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. >=20 > I would be happy with any of these. I am probably missing something, but why do you need the end point? date:2015-04-16 mean date:2015-04-16..2015-04-16? date: -> date:.. - gaute =