day-oriented search - how to?

[Andrew Gaydenko]

Hi!

I often use search filter in 'd:20160301..20160301' form,
that is just means some day in past.

It would be very handy:

- to avoid repeating
- optionally to omit year/month defaulting to the current ones
- optionally to omit century (that is '20' year part)

Logically it is very simple:

- 'to' is omitted => 'to' is the last moment of 'from' day
- 2 digits - a day of the current month
- 4 digits - month/day of the current year
- 6 digits - year/month/day of the current century
- 8 digits - full form

How to?
Have I missed some handy way to get the aim?
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Regards,
Andrew

[Eduardo Mercovich]

Hi Andrew.

> I often use search filter in 'd:20160301..20160301' form,
> that is just means some day in past.

> It would be very handy: [...]

> How to?
> Have I missed some handy way to get the aim?

Just to understand... do you mean making some inteligent parsing of the
usual search, or creating a function to search for a special day?

If it's the 1st, I've no idea how it can be done, but if it's the 2nd it
can be done counting the digits:
+ if 2, that's the day in the current month/year
+ if 1+/1+, that's day in month in current year
+ if 1+/1+/1+ that's day/month/year...


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[Andrew Gaydenko]

Eduardo, hi,

As far as current search syntax isn't compatible with that day-oriented
one I have suggested, it is more the second, that is probably some kind
of own command.

I'm rather new with elisp, so, probably somebody already have crafted
own custom search commands, and I'd take it as a base to modify.

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Regards,
Andrew

[Eduardo Mercovich]

Hi.

> As far as current search syntax isn't compatible with that day-oriented
> one I have suggested, it is more the second, that is probably some kind
> of own command.

Ok.

> I'm rather new with elisp, so, probably somebody already have crafted
> own custom search commands, and I'd take it as a base to modify.

I don't know elisp, sorry.
However, I'd like to understand it's use to make it more usable for
everyone interested. How do you get the precise date?

Becase if you search a message 1st to find the date, one posibility could be an action

"[s]how this date"

similar to the current

"[s]how this thread"...

(further filters could be applied, of course).

[Andrew Gaydenko]

Eduardo Mercovich <eduardo....@gmail.com> writes:
> How do you get the precise date?

I haven't got any task-related code yet.

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Regards,
Andrew

[Eduardo Mercovich]

Hi Andrew.

>> How do you get the precise date?

> I haven't got any task-related code yet.

Sorry I wasn't clear... I meant how do you do it from a human/task point
of view. Nothing about code. :)

And when I said "action" I meant that it could be implemented in the
same way. So yes, here is something about code, althought I don't know
how it's done, except that it is "get this info from this mail" (the
date in this case) and make a search based on this info.

Best...

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

Most of this is possible already - search for 'date:' in the 'mu-find'
manpage, and there are some example in the mu4e manual as well.

Kind regards,
Dirk.

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[Andrew Gaydenko]

Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <dj...@djcbsoftware.nl> writes:

> On Tuesday Mar 01 2016, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I often use search filter in 'd:20160301..20160301' form,
>> that is just means some day in past.
>>
>> It would be very handy:
>>
>> - to avoid repeating
>> - optionally to omit year/month defaulting to the current ones
>> - optionally to omit century (that is '20' year part)
>>
>> Logically it is very simple:
>>
>> - 'to' is omitted => 'to' is the last moment of 'from' day
>> - 2 digits - a day of the current month
>> - 4 digits - month/day of the current year
>> - 6 digits - year/month/day of the current century
>> - 8 digits - full form
>>
>> How to?
>> Have I missed some handy way to get the aim?
>
> Most of this is possible already - search for 'date:' in the 'mu-find'
> manpage, and there are some example in the mu4e manual as well.

Dirk, hi!

Yes, I have dug in 'man mu-find' (and do it from time to time
discovering something new), but still wasn't lucky to understand how to
shorten 'particular day' search, say, 'messages during Dec 31 last
year'. In other words, d:20151231..20151231 is the shortest way I
have found. Have I missed some sugar?

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Regards,
Andrew

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

Hi Andrew,

On Thursday Mar 03 2016, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:


> Yes, I have dug in 'man mu-find' (and do it from time to time
> discovering something new), but still wasn't lucky to understand how to
> shorten 'particular day' search, say, 'messages during Dec 31 last
> year'. In other words, d:20151231..20151231 is the shortest way I
> have found. Have I missed some sugar?

That's really the shortest way for now; I remember someone wanted to
implement relative dates, but it never came to it.