Question about sorting articles inside threads and a documentation bug

Question about sorting articles inside threads and a documentation bug

[Tassilo Horn]

Hi all,

first I found a documentation bug.

Section (info "(gnus)Sorting the Summary Buffer") mentions a function
`gnus-thread-sort-by-date-reverse' that's not defined (in No
Gnus). That's not needed anyway because (not gnus-thread-sort-by-date)
already does what the function's name suggests.

Ok, and now a sorting question. I'd like to have threads sorted this
way:

        - On top are threads with highest total score
        - If scores are equal, then the thread with the most recent
          articles comes first
        - If that's equal, then sort by number

That's easily done with

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
      '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number
        gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date
        gnus-thread-sort-by-total-score))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

But _inside_ a thread, I'd like to sort according to the articles date
(on that branching level). Here's an example:

09:00 -- 09:01
      |- 09:03
      |- 09:17 -- 09:22
      |        |- 11:20 -- 13:45
      |        |        `- 14:00
      |        `- 12:11
      `- 11:57

With the `gnus-thread-sort-functions' above newer articles are on
top. That's quite inconvenient because often posters refer to earlier
postings, e.g. Reiner says in the article on 11:57: "As Katsumi pointed
out in his article on 9:03,...". Of course I don't have read that older
article at that time yet.

How can I do that?

Bye,
Tassilo
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Re: Question about sorting articles inside threads and a documentation bug

[Leo]

On 2007-07-06 21:02 +0100, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> first I found a documentation bug.
>
> Section (info "(gnus)Sorting the Summary Buffer") mentions a function
> `gnus-thread-sort-by-date-reverse' that's not defined (in No
> Gnus). That's not needed anyway because (not gnus-thread-sort-by-date)
> already does what the function's name suggests.

I have also found this error in the doc. See:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65191

Can someone fix it?

> Ok, and now a sorting question. I'd like to have threads sorted this
> way:
>
>         - On top are threads with highest total score
>         - If scores are equal, then the thread with the most recent
>           articles comes first
>         - If that's equal, then sort by number
>
> That's easily done with
>
> (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
>       '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number
>         gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date
>         gnus-thread-sort-by-total-score))
>
> But _inside_ a thread, I'd like to sort according to the articles date
> (on that branching level). Here's an example:
>
> 09:00 -- 09:01
>       |- 09:03
>       |- 09:17 -- 09:22
>       |        |- 11:20 -- 13:45
>       |        |        `- 14:00
>       |        `- 12:11
>       `- 11:57
>
> With the `gnus-thread-sort-functions' above newer articles are on
> top. That's quite inconvenient because often posters refer to earlier
> postings, e.g. Reiner says in the article on 11:57: "As Katsumi pointed
> out in his article on 9:03,...". Of course I don't have read that older
> article at that time yet.
>
> How can I do that?

The sorting thing is completely mysterious to me. I want threads to be
sorted by the largest article number within the thread in a ascending
order. I tried `(not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number)' but I am
still seeing some threads not sorted under this rule.

Can someone help?

> Bye,
> Tassilo

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