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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] doc/sexp: document range queries.
Date: Sat,  4 Jun 2022 18:53:59 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220604215359.1311950-4-david@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220604215359.1311950-1-david@tethera.net>

Give examples for date fields, as these are commonly useful for user
queries.
---
 doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst
index 1d7e0ae9..be589f98 100644
--- a/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst
+++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-sexp-queries.rst
@@ -119,6 +119,12 @@ a message has one such attribute, and ``and`` otherwise.
 Term or phrase fields can contain arbitrarily complex queries made up
 from terms, operators, and modifiers, but not other fields.
 
+Range fields take one or two arguments specifying lower and upper
+bounds.  One argument is interpreted as identical upper and lower
+bounds. Either upper or lower bound may be specified as ``""`` or
+``*`` to specify the lowest possible lower bound or highest possible
+upper bound.
+
 .. _field-table:
 
 .. table:: Fields with supported modifiers
@@ -240,6 +246,18 @@ EXAMPLES
 
     Match messages in the given date range with tag unread.
 
+``(and (date 2009-11-18 2009-11-18) (tag unread))``
+
+    Match messages in the given date range with tag unread.
+
+``(and (date 2009-11-18 *) (tag unread))``
+
+    Match messages from 2009-11-18 or later with tag unread.
+
+``(and (date * 2009-11-18) (tag unread))``
+
+    Match messages from 2009-11-18 or earlier with tag unread.
+    
 ``(starts-with prelim)``
 
     Match any words starting with "prelim".
-- 
2.35.2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-04 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-18 14:23 [Wishlist] Add equivalent of lastmod:nnn.. to sexp query parser David Bremner
2022-06-04 21:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] test/sexp: one sided range searches David Bremner
2022-06-04 21:53   ` [PATCH 2/4] lib/sexp: special case "" as an argument in lastmod ranges David Bremner
2022-06-04 21:53   ` [PATCH 3/4] lib/sexp: allow * as alias for "" in range searches David Bremner
2022-06-04 21:53   ` David Bremner [this message]
2022-06-25 23:00   ` [PATCH 1/4] test/sexp: one sided " David Bremner

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