Re: wish list: thread-gathering sort options

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>]

Truxton Fulton <trux@truxton.com> writes:
> I found a work-around that does the trick for me.  The thread
> gathering process gathers lower threads up to the higher thread.
> If this could be reversed (since the thread sorting order is also
> reversed), that would solve the problem.

That gets the groups of gathered threads into the proper order, but
wouldn't it put the thread with the latest messages first within each
group?  I think I'd want the threads within each gathered group to be
sorted by most-recent number or date too.

Still, it may better than the status quo.  Thanks for the suggestion,
I'll try it out.  A new thread-gathering function that does something
like:

     (reverse (gnus-gather-threads-by-subject (reverse arg)))

(or similarly for -by-references) should accomplish the same.

> I'm sure there's a better way, since this will only do good things
> for those of us with the most recent messages at the bottom of the
> buffer.

True...

Ken