Moving an article within summary buffer

Moving an article within summary buffer

[romeomedina]

How can I move an article from one place to another
within the summary buffer?
If I do 'B m', gnus will move it into another group;
instead I just want to change its place within the summary buffer.

Thanks for any reply,
Rodolfo

Re: Moving an article within summary buffer

[Adam Sjøgren]

On 27 Sep 2005 02:03:47 -0700, romeomedina@libero.it wrote:

> How can I move an article from one place to another
> within the summary buffer?
> If I do 'B m', gnus will move it into another group;
> instead I just want to change its place within the summary buffer.

Summary buffers are sorted. I don't think there is any predefined
functionality allowing you to arbitrarily order them manually. See the
node 'Sorting the Summary Buffer' in the manual.

(<http://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_79.html#SEC79>)


  Best regards,

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Re: Moving an article within summary buffer

[romeomedina]

I put in ~/.gnus.el:

     (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
	   '(gnus-thread-sort-by-date))

, but for some strange reason sorting is still done
on article numbers and not on date, when articles
have the same subject. How on earth do I fix that?

And, isn't there maybe some elisp magic construction that
could allow to sort Summary buffer manually after all?

Thanks,
Rodolfo

Re: Moving an article within summary buffer

[David Z Maze]

romeomedina@libero.it writes:

> I put in ~/.gnus.el:
>
>      (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
> 	   '(gnus-thread-sort-by-date))
>
> , but for some strange reason sorting is still done
> on article numbers and not on date, when articles
> have the same subject. How on earth do I fix that?

Are you using threading?  info://gnus/Sorting+the+Summary+Buffer
mentions that, if you're not, you need to use
gnus-article-sort-functions and gnus-article-sort-by-date, etc.,
instead.  Also note the comment that you probably want
gnus-{article,thread}-sort-by-number at the front of the list to get a
consistent sort in case two articles have the same date.

  --dzm

Re: Moving an article within summary buffer

[romeomedina]

I also tried with:

     (setq gnus-article-sort-functions
	   '(gnus-article-sort-by-date
))

, but the problem remains: article sharing the same subject
are sorted by numbers and not by date.

Maybe there is a way to toggle sorting by numbers off?

In Summary buffer there seems to be nothing like
Group buffer's 'C-k C-y' manual sorting; it's a shame.

Rodolfo

Re: Moving an article within summary buffer

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Sep 27 2005, romeomedina@libero.it wrote:

> In Summary buffer there seems to be nothing like
> Group buffer's 'C-k C-y' manual sorting; it's a shame.

I don't see any sense in sorting articles in the summary buffer
manually as this buffer is ephemeral.

But probably it is possible in Gnus: sort by number and then `B m' to
the same group.  The moved articles gets the highest number.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: Moving an article within summary buffer

[romeomedina]

'B m' to same group woks fine, thanks!

As for automatic sorting in Summary buffer, maybe the
'gnus-summary-sort-by-date' function (see § 'Summary sorting'
in Gnus Manual) is my friend. It is bound to the 'C-c C-s C-d'
key, but: how can I set it permanently?
Maybe it's better to start a new thread about that.

Thanks to those who replied,
Rodolfo