From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44844 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: wish list: thread-gathering sort options Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 12:03:55 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=latin-iso8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021478749 28259 127.0.0.1 (15 May 2002 16:05:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 16:05:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 1781Hg-0007LZ-00 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 18:05:48 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1781GK-0002oo-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 15 May 2002 11:04:41 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA09537 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:04:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 2268 invoked by alias); 15 May 2002 16:04:07 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2262 invoked from network); 15 May 2002 16:04:07 -0000 Original-Received: from 146-115-123-35.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO raeburn.org) (146.115.123.35) by gnus.org with SMTP; 15 May 2002 16:04:07 -0000 Original-Received: from kal-el.raeburn.org (mail@kal-el.raeburn.org [18.101.0.230]) by raeburn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g4FG40B02052; Wed, 15 May 2002 12:04:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from raeburn by kal-el.raeburn.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1781Fw-0001yq-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 12:04:00 -0400 Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@cs.uni-dortmund.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Tue, 14 May 2002 17:23:21 +0200") Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44844 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44844 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Maybe there is a misunderstanding of how to parse this display. I'm > going by indentation, and I can see four threads, indicated by blank > lines below. > >> E. 43380 30-Apr[ 15:Stainless Steel] Re: Are the latest Oort features = better=20 >> E. 43387 01-May< 31:Karl Eichwalder>=20 >> E. 43388 01-May< 10:Per Abrahamsen >=20 >> E. 43395 01-May[ 13:Kai Grojohann ]=20 >> E. 43412 01-May[ 21:Daniel Pittman ]=20 >> E. 43418 02-May[ 12:Kai Grojohann ]=20 >> E. 43419 02-May[ 18:Daniel Pittman ]=20 > Is this parsing correct? (I turned off the <...> display in 1996 or > so, using only [...] and therefore I've now completely forgotten what > it means. (Actually, I turned off the [...] some months ago, too.)) The <...> means it's the start of a loose thread connected not by references but by thread-gathering. So, in some ways it's treated as part of the same thread, but sorting isn't one of those ways. C-h v says: gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function's value is=20 gnus-gather-threads-by-subject ... Ken