On Fri 2018-05-11 07:15:41 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:
>
>> 0 dkg@alice:~$ notmuch count 'thread:{date:1month..now tag:dkg}'
>> notmuch count: A Xapian exception occurred
>> A Xapian exception occurred parsing query: missing } in '{date:1month..now'
>> Query string was: thread:{date:1month..now tag:dkg}
>> 1 dkg@alice:~$ 
>
> Pretty sure what you want here is
>
>         $ notmuch count 'thread:"{date:1month..now tag:dkg}"'

Thanks, yes, that's it.  I still find the quoting/assembling rules for
notmuch queries non-intuitive, but maybe one day i'll wrap my head
around them some day.  I certainly don't have any specific suggestions
for improvement.

This is a really useful feature, much appreciated!

        --dkg