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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Thread subqueries
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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}"'

There is some related discussion in QUOTING in notmuch-search-terms(7),
and the thread:{} examples there all double quoting so they still work
if the terms are replaced by terms with spaces.

d