Re: Sort recent threads towards bottom when gathering threads by subject?

[John Magolske <listmail@b79.net>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> On Feb 14 2017, John Magolske <listmail@b79.net> wrote:
>
>> I can order threads how I'd like, but most recent messages & threads
>> with most recent message will be sorted towards the top like so:
>>
>>     C (5 Feb 01:19)
>>     A (2 Feb 13:49)
>>     └─► A (4 Feb 20:05)
>>     B (2 Feb 18:09)
>>
>> Here thread "A" is ahead of message "B" as the most recent message in
>> thread "A" is newer than "B". I'd like to have that sorting order, but
>> towards the bottom, and cannot figure out how to accomplish this.
>
> IIUC you can get what you want if you use
> `(not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number)'
> as the element of gnus-thread-sort-functions.

I have tried that...well, actually I was using this:

    (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
          '((not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number)
            (not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date)))

Per your suggestion I also tried:

    (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
          '((not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number)))

In both cases this only gets the order I want (most recent message /
thread with most recent message ordered towards bottom) when gathering
threads by reference. When gathering threads by subject, messages are
ordered towards the bottom with sorting done by the root/oldest message
of threads rather than the most recent message. I'm still getting:

    A (2 Feb 13:49)
    └─► A (4 Feb 20:05)
    B (2 Feb 18:09)
    C (5 Feb 01:19)

I included various other threading-related settings in my previous post
thinking there might be some other factors contributing to this.

Thoughts?

John

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