Gnus development mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster)
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: thread sorting
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 15:21:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y62ndinc.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqo0ge8a.fsf@member.fsf.org>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 357 bytes --]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> |  (not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date)

That's it, thanks!

After reading

   "Note that sorting really is normally done by looking only at the
    roots of each thread."

I was quite sure, that it would be nearly impossible to do...

Thus, please find attached a little patch for the documentation.


[-- Attachment #2: git.diff --]
[-- Type: text/x-patch, Size: 1573 bytes --]

diff --git a/texi/ChangeLog b/texi/ChangeLog
index c9e56c4..0628e0d 100644
--- a/texi/ChangeLog
+++ b/texi/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-05-03  Peter Münster  <pmlists@free.fr>
+
+	* gnus.texi (Summary Buffer Lines):
+	gnus-summary-user-date-format-alist does not exist.
+	(Sorting the Summary Buffer): More about sorting threads.
+
 2011-04-14  Teodor Zlatanov  <tzz@lifelogs.com>
 
 	* gnus.texi (nnmairix caveats, Setup, Registry Article Refer Method)
diff --git a/texi/gnus.texi b/texi/gnus.texi
index e414508..b458ce6 100644
--- a/texi/gnus.texi
+++ b/texi/gnus.texi
@@ -4953,7 +4953,7 @@ Download mark.
 Desired cursor position (instead of after first colon).
 @item &user-date;
 Age sensitive date format.  Various date format is defined in
-@code{gnus-summary-user-date-format-alist}.
+@code{gnus-user-date-format-alist}.
 @item u
 User defined specifier.  The next character in the format string should
 be a letter.  Gnus will call the function
@@ -7340,7 +7340,9 @@ predicate functions include @code{gnus-thread-sort-by-number},
 
 Each function takes two threads and returns non-@code{nil} if the first
 thread should be sorted before the other.  Note that sorting really is
-normally done by looking only at the roots of each thread.
+normally done by looking only at the roots of each thread.  Exceptions
+to this rule are @code{gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number} and
+@code{gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date}.
 
 If you use more than one function, the primary sort key should be the
 last function in the list.  You should probably always include

[-- Attachment #3: Type: text/plain, Size: 22 bytes --]


-- 
           Peter

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-03 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03  7:16 Peter Münster
2011-05-03 12:28 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-05-03 13:21   ` Peter Münster [this message]
2011-05-03 18:04     ` Tassilo Horn
2011-05-03 20:45       ` Reiner Steib
2011-05-04  6:32         ` Tassilo Horn
2011-05-04  7:05           ` Peter Münster
2011-05-04  7:15             ` Tassilo Horn
2011-05-04  7:55               ` David Engster
2011-05-04 10:35                 ` Tassilo Horn

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=87y62ndinc.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh \
    --to=pmlists@free.fr \
    --cc=ding@gnus.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).