lib: add support for date:<expr>..! to mean date:<expr>..<expr>

[notmuch] / doc / man7 / notmuch-search-terms.rst

diff --git a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst
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--- a/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst
+++ b/doc/man7/notmuch-search-terms.rst
@@ -278,6 +278,13 @@ In this case, <since> is taken as the earliest time it could describe
 could describe (the end of yesterday). Similarly, date:january..february
 matches from the beginning of January to the end of February.
 
+date:<expr>..! can be used as a shorthand for date:<expr>..<expr>. The
+expansion takes place before interpretation, and thus, for example,
+date:monday..! matches from the beginning of Monday until the end of
+Monday. (Note that entering date:<expr> without "..", for example
+date:yesterday, won't work, as it's not interpreted as a range
+expression at all. Again, use date:yesterday..!)
+
 Currently, we do not support spaces in range expressions. You can
 replace the spaces with '\_', or (in most cases) '-', or (in some cases)
 leave the spaces out altogether. Examples in this man page use spaces
@@ -288,11 +295,6 @@ to specify date:..<until> or date:<since>.. to not limit the start or
 end time, respectively. Pre-1.2.1 Xapian does not report an error on
 open ended ranges, but it does not work as expected either.
 
-Entering date:expr without ".." (for example date:yesterday) won't work,
-as it's not interpreted as a range expression at all. You can achieve
-the expected result by duplicating the expr both sides of ".." (for
-example date:yesterday..yesterday).
-
 Relative date and time
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