On Fri, 02 Nov 2012, Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz> wrote: > Just pulled current HEAD and tried > > $ notmuch search tag:notmuch and date:"this week" > notmuch search tag:notmuch and date:'"this week"' > $ notmuch search tag:notmuch and date:"this week.." There are two technical limitations at play here, imposed on us by Xapian. First, Xapian provides us with no way to support the date: prefix *without* the range operator "..", and worse, AFAICT there's no way to flag this as an error either. Second, Xapian does not support spaces in range expression (at least not the last time I checked from the source) regardless of the amount of quoting or escaping. These limitations are documented in the DATE AND TIME SEARCH section of the notmuch-search-terms(7) man page, and that's unfortunately about as much as we can do about it at the moment. The workaround is to always have .. in the date: search, and replace spaces with e.g. '-' or '_'. See the man page for details. The search you are looking for is either date:this-week..this-week or just date:this-week.. HTH, Jani.