From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78688 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: thread sorting Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 15:21:27 +0200 Organization: Micropit Message-ID: <87y62ndinc.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> References: <877ha8dzja.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> <87pqo0ge8a.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304428939 30622 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2011 13:22:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 13:22:19 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26990@lists.math.uh.edu Tue May 03 15:22:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHFYN-0003qA-Iu for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 15:22:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QHFXz-0007Fp-Mk; Tue, 03 May 2011 08:21:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QHFXy-0007Fh-Kz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 03 May 2011 08:21:50 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QHFXt-0007Iy-Nx for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 03 May 2011 08:21:50 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QHFXp-0001zb-Gc for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 15:21:41 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QHFXo-0003Rj-F5 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 15:21:40 +0200 Original-Received: from arennes-651-1-195-207.w90-25.abo.wanadoo.fr ([90.25.38.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 May 2011 15:21:40 +0200 Original-Received: from pmlists by arennes-651-1-195-207.w90-25.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 May 2011 15:21:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 71 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: arennes-651-1-195-207.w90-25.abo.wanadoo.fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:A5dIdDBK/lOkOxiiH0TOItSAjHA= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78688 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Tassilo Horn 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. --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-patch; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline; filename=git.diff Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 + + * 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 * 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain -- Peter --=-=-=--