From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] natural language date range search
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:45:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ty2cd8jm.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehtiitag.fsf@nikula.org>
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:53:27 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:05:44 +0200, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
[ ... ]
> >
> > By seeing the thoughts thrown in IRC there seems to be plenty if things
> > to resolve until something like this is going to be available in stock
> > notmuch. In the meanwhile I provide some ideas into the soup; maybe
> > our collective mind can have some use of this.
> >
> >
> > Q: Could 'date:timestr' be converted to 'date:timestr..timestr' ?
>
> AFAICT this would require the custom query parser.
So, maybe someday... :)
> > In this idea -<timestr> means relative time and <timestr> absolute
> > time. The the time string consists of number and letter and assume
> > the above suggestion for date:timestr (<- == date:timestr..timestr)
> > Letters are s seconds h hours d days w weeks m months (more
> > useful than for minutes) and y years.
>
> I'll put it bluntly: show me the code! ;)
I would not have expected nothing less ;)
> I'll comment below how your examples can be expressed with working code
> in this series, just for comparison, and to show what can be done with
> this.
Great! Those features suits to my needs just fine; last day is most often
needed, then parhaps I jump to one week. 5w is good for ~one month.
More "absolute" times (like last november / since last november) are so
seldomly needed that writing a bit more is not an issue :D
[ ... ]
>
> BR,
> Jani.
Tomi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-27 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-19 22:55 [RFC PATCH 0/2] natural language date range search Jani Nikula
2012-02-19 22:55 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] lib: add date/time parser Jani Nikula
2012-02-26 8:45 ` Mark Walters
2012-02-26 20:39 ` Jani Nikula
2012-02-19 22:55 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] lib: add date range search Jani Nikula
2012-02-25 15:05 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] natural language " Tomi Ollila
2012-02-25 19:53 ` Jani Nikula
2012-02-27 7:45 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
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