On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Robert Künnemann <robert@kunnemann.de> wrote: > I've been using notmuch for about a year now (using mutt-kz) and I am > very happy with it. I have, however, a small suggestion about the range > syntax in search queries. Often, I am looking for emails that have > occurred, say, in the last week. The query has the following form: > > date:today-1week..today In other words, date:1w.. The reference for relative dates is "now" if one is not specified. The minus sign means nothing, relative dates all refer to the past and are added together. > The following syntactic sugar could shorten this kind of queries: > > date:r -> date:r..today, if r is a relative date You can use open ended queries date:since.. or date:..until to not limit the end or start time. > date:a -> date:a..a, if a is an absolute date This needs support from Xapian, but we've discussed this in the past and agree on the semantics. There's a patch to make date:a..! mean the same in the mean time: http://mid.gmane.org/1425732959-2282-1-git-send-email-jani@nikula.org > date:a-r -> date:a-r..a, for combination. I think this conflicts with the above. > (If r is interpreted as today-r, the first two transformations are > subsumed by the last.) > > For example: > date:today -> date:today..today > date:-1week -> date:-1week..today date:1w.. > date:24.12.2014-4w -> date:24.12.2014-4w..24.12.2014 > > What do you think about this suggestion? Is this something notmuch would > do, or rather something for xapian? What we can do in notmuch is pretty limited unless we write a full blown custom query parser. Basically Xapian parses date: and .., and passes us the rest to figure out. HTH, Jani. > > With kind regards, Robert Künnemann > _______________________________________________ > notmuch mailing list > notmuch@notmuchmail.org > http://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch