Re: nnir - articles order

[Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu>]

>>>>> "Andy" == Andrew Cohen <cohen@andy.bu.edu> writes:

>>>>> "Steinar" == Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>>>>> Bruno Tavernier <tavernier.bruno@gmail.com>:
    >>> For instance gnus displays the oldest first and the newest at
    >>> the bottom and nnir does the opposite.

    Steinar> I'm guessing (I haven't checked the code or earlier
    Steinar> postings by Andrew Cohen on the subject) nnir aims to list
    Steinar> by the way the search engine returns the results (which
    Steinar> depends on the search engine, but usually relevance
    Steinar> calculation has something to do with the returned order).

    Andy> That's right (more or less---there are complications when
    Andy> searching more than one group).

    Andy> Although I haven't played with it, you might be able to sort
    Andy> the summary buffer with the usual sorting functions. I'd be
    Andy> curious to know how well this works.


And it seems to work just fine. IMAP searching doesn't in fact assign a
retrieval score, so the resulting article list can be in any
order. Since the gnus `default' is increasing article number, and this
can be munged by the user into any order, I'll change it to conform to
this in my next push.

So it was both a feature and a bug:)