From: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Problem with thread sorting
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 14:20:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqnn6arl.fsf@uwo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hb94f4yk.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh>
pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster) writes:
> When the root of a thread is not in the summary buffer, the thread
> sorting is wrong.
I've also noticed bad sorting behaviour, and it might be the same issue
you are seeing. Like you, I sort threads by the most recent date, and
in my Inbox I often have every second article in a conversation (the
messages I sent are stored in my Sent group). This causes Gnus to
gather the articles together rather than treat them as one thread. I
think what is happening is that this gathering is done *after* the
threads are sorted. If I am right, then the solution is to form
threads, gather them together to make "virtual" threads, and then sort
those. However, I think the sorting code assumes that all threads are
trees, so false roots would be needed. (Maybe false roots are always
created behind the scenes no matter how gnus-summary-make-false-root is
set?)
I'm swamped right now, so I won't be able to come up with a patch, but
maybe the above is enough to help someone else fix this.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-12 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-09 12:12 Peter Münster
2011-05-12 18:20 ` Dan Christensen [this message]
2011-05-30 20:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-31 7:15 ` Peter Münster
2011-05-31 19:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-02 14:10 ` Dan Christensen
2011-06-03 22:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-03 22:32 ` Peter Münster
2011-06-03 22:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-05 0:34 ` Dan Christensen
2011-06-26 10:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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