different thread sorting rules for one group?

different thread sorting rules for one group?

[Bill White]

This feels like a FAQ, but I haven't stumbled across the answer yet
:-/

I have this in my .gnus to apply to all groups:

(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
      '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number
	gnus-thread-sort-by-date
	gnus-thread-sort-by-subject
	gnus-thread-sort-by-author
	gnus-thread-sort-by-score
	gnus-thread-sort-by-total-score))

This is fine for all my groups but one. In that one group I want
threads to be sorted by date rather than by score.

I've tried lots of variations of this with 'G p' on the group, but
with no effect:

,----
| ;;; Editing the group parameters for `nnml:mail.misc.2001-05'.
| ;; Type `C-c C-c' after you've finished editing.
| 
| (gnus-thread-sort-functions
|  '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number gnus-thread-sort-by-date))
| 
`----

How can I set up different sorting for only one group?

Thanks!

bw
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Re: different thread sorting rules for one group?

[Francisco Solsona]

Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:

[...]

> I've tried lots of variations of this with 'G p' on the group, but
> with no effect:
> 
> ,----
> | ;;; Editing the group parameters for `nnml:mail.misc.2001-05'.
> | ;; Type `C-c C-c' after you've finished editing.
> | 
> | (gnus-thread-sort-functions
> |  '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number gnus-thread-sort-by-date))
> | 
> `----
> 
> How can I set up different sorting for only one group?

You're on the right track, you're missing a set of parens though:

,--------------------
| ( 
|  (gnus-thread-sort-functions
|    '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number gnus-thread-sort-by-date))
|  )
`--------------------

group parameters are lists of pairs.

hth,
Francisco

Re: different thread sorting rules for one group?

[Kai Großjohann]

On 08 May 2001, Bill White wrote:

> | (gnus-thread-sort-functions
> |  '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number gnus-thread-sort-by-date))

Looks like the tick should not be there.

Does it help to use `G c' rather than `G p' to frob the group
parameters?  It ought to help avoid Lisp errors like this.

kai
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