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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: add support for date:<expr>..! to mean
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Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:

> It doesn't seem likely we can support simple date:<expr> expanding to
> date:<expr>..<expr> any time soon. (This can be done with a future
> version of Xapian, or with a custom query query parser.) In the mean
> time, provide shorthand date:<expr>..! to mean the same. This is
> useful, as the expansion takes place before interpetation, and we can
> use, for example, date:yesterday..! to match from beginning of
> yesterday to end of yesterday.

pushed. At some point we probably want a NEWS item.

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