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Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> Lars> (defun gnus-thread-sort-by-newest-date (h1 h2)
> Lars> "Sort threads by root article date."
> Lars> (gnus-article-sort-by-date
> Lars> (gnus-newest-article-in-thread h1) (gnus-newest-article-in-thread h2)))
> 
> But it would be so much cooler to say:
> 
> (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
>       '((reverse gnus-thread-sort-by-number)       ;; sorts new article first

But that's not the same -- that will sort so that the thread with the
newest root is first; not the thread that contains the newest article.

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