Re: threading display strange

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

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>>> "TH" == Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>> and they are not ordered monotonically.  So which criterion do you
>>> actually want to use for sorting.
>> 
>> Well if the date and time is too messy, I'd say I would like to sort by
>> number, but I want it montonically indepent whether threading is on or off

> I think, thus should be

> (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number)
>       gnus-article-sort-functions '(gnus-article-sort-by-number))


This was my first setting.

      
> then.

>> But it should be displayed as 
>> 
>> 57606 [  Uwe Braue] Uwe Brauer  [[CV] (was: [Amnu 19])    ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:30:41 +0200 8.8k 6   
>> 57609 [ +henar de ] Uwe Brauer  [                         ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 09:35:45 +0000 10k 13   
>> 57585 [  tex-d-l-r] tex-d-l@li  [tex-d-l Nachrichtenkompil] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:00:07 +0200 13k 165   
>> 57593 [  users    ] oub@mat.uc  [Subject: Digest of users@] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 08:00:27 +0000 (UTC) 38k 11   
>> 57621 [  Uwe Braue] Uwe Brauer  [[stuff] (was: [CV])      ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:04:34 +0200 9.4k 16   
>> 
>> That is what Thunderbird does and it looks more natural to me. 
>> Did I explain clear enough what I want?

> Well, above you've said you want to sort by number and then you present
> an example which is not sorted by number... I don't know how thunderbird
> sorts, so I cannot come up with a "just like thunderbird" configuration.

Right, it should be

 57585 [  tex-d-l-r] tex-d-l@li  [tex-d-l Nachrichtenkompil] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:00:07 +0200 13k 165   
 57593 [  users    ] oub@mat.uc  [Subject: Digest of users@] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 08:00:27 +0000 (UTC) 38k 11   
 57606 [  Uwe Braue] Uwe Brauer  [[CV] (was: [Amnu 19])    ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:30:41 +0200 8.8k 6   
 57609 [ +henar de ] Uwe Brauer  [                         ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 09:35:45 +0000 10k 13   
 57621 [  Uwe Braue] Uwe Brauer  [[stuff] (was: [CV])      ] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:04:34 +0200 9.4k 16   

My point being, that gnus does not sort it according to its own numbering.




> BTW, you can also re-sort the summary buffer interactively using the
> commands bound to the C-c C-s prefix.  That's probably quicker to find a
> sorting version that suits your needs.

My feeling is, there is a bug in gnus, sort by numbers does not work,
when threading is on. Maybe later I send a bug report.

Thanks for your help

Uwe 

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