$(date ...)..$(date ...) request from Emacs

$(date ...)..$(date ...) request from Emacs

[Bastien]

Hi again,

notmuch search $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)

works wonders from the command line, but not from within Emacs:

M-x notmuch-search RET $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)

[Sat Aug 24 12:39:15 2013]
A Xapian exception occurred performing query: Unknown range operation
Query string was: $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)
command: notmuch search --format\=sexp --format-version\=1 --sort\=newest-first \$\(date\ \+\%s\ -d\ 2009-10-01\)..\$\(date\ \+\%s\ -d\ 2009-10-02\)
exit status: 1
stderr:
A Xapian exception occurred performing query: Unknown range operation
Query string was: $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)

I see --format=sexp -- does that mean we need to protect those
kinds of requests somehow?

Thanks for your help!

-- 
 Bastien

Re: $(date ...)..$(date ...) request from Emacs

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sat, Aug 24 2013, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> notmuch search $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)
>
> works wonders from the command line, but not from within Emacs:
>
> M-x notmuch-search RET $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)

there is no shell expansion done to the string... 

... however

M-x notmuch-search RET date:2009-10-01..2009-10-02

should do it (provided you have at least notmuch 0.15 (or so))

Tomi


>
> [Sat Aug 24 12:39:15 2013]
> A Xapian exception occurred performing query: Unknown range operation
> Query string was: $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)
> command: notmuch search --format\=sexp --format-version\=1 --sort\=newest-first \$\(date\ \+\%s\ -d\ 2009-10-01\)..\$\(date\ \+\%s\ -d\ 2009-10-02\)
> exit status: 1
> stderr:
> A Xapian exception occurred performing query: Unknown range operation
> Query string was: $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)
>
> I see --format=sexp -- does that mean we need to protect those
> kinds of requests somehow?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> -- 
>  Bastien
>
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Re: $(date ...)..$(date ...) request from Emacs

[Suvayu Ali]

Hello Bastien!

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 01:49:48PM +0300, Tomi Ollila wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24 2013, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi again,
> >
> > notmuch search $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)
> >
> > works wonders from the command line, but not from within Emacs:
> >
> > M-x notmuch-search RET $(date +%s -d 2009-10-01)..$(date +%s -d 2009-10-02)
> 
> there is no shell expansion done to the string... 
> 
> ... however
> 
> M-x notmuch-search RET date:2009-10-01..2009-10-02
> 
> should do it (provided you have at least notmuch 0.15 (or so))

To add to that, notmuch now also understands relative dates, and many
other date expressions.  Check out the 'Date and time search' section in
`man notmuch-search-terms'.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: $(date ...)..$(date ...) request from Emacs

[Bastien]

Hi Suvayu :)

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
writes:

> To add to that, notmuch now also understands relative dates, and many
> other date expressions.  Check out the 'Date and time search' section in
> `man notmuch-search-terms'.

Wonderful, thanks for the hint!

-- 
 Bastien