Re: What is "sort by date" supposed to do?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Laura Conrad <lconrad@world.std.com> writes:

> I was hoping that what the xemacs misc=>sort=>Sort by Date (^C^S^D)
> menu item would do is sort articles entirely by date, ignoring any
> threading.  Obviously, this isn't what's happening.  Is this a bug or
> a feature, and if the latter, is there a way to get the feature I
> want?

It is a feature.  Think of it as follows: first all articles are
sorted by date, then we go through each article, and if it is part of
a thread, we move it up (or, in rare cases, down) to its parent.  This
means that thread roots are sorted by date.  (I think the actual
algorithm that's used is different, but I hope the above description
is close enough and understandable.)

You can turn off threading (`T T' toggles it), then sort by date to
get what you want.

kai
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