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From: "Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Correct ordering of items in mail threads
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 20:38:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qdlw5eb.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874jiho0yb.fsf@codeisgreat.org>

Pankaj writes:

> Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

>> Pankaj writes:

>>> In the above snapshot, items are still ordered incorrectly.

>> Just to make sure: you are expecting the article in the last row to be
>> shown in the 4th row?

> No. I want the indentation to be proper. It cannot be child of a later message.

This illustrates nicely that only stating that something is incorrect,
without saying what you expect, is insufficient :-)

> As we can see this is not possible.

I cannot see this without examining the headers, maybe you can :-)


  Best regards,

    Adam


(I wanted to point you at Eric S Fraga's suggestion when I stumbled
over the "adopted"-thing, but I could find it at the time - luckily he
has suggested looking at gnus-sort-gathered-threads-function again -
setting that does what you want, right?!)

-- 
 "Oh, great altar of passive entertainment... bestow        Adam Sjøgren
  upon me thy discordant images at such speed as to    asjo@koldfront.dk
  render linear thought impossible!"



  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-23 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-21  5:11 Pankaj Jangid
2023-10-22 11:24 ` Eric S Fraga
2023-10-22 16:15   ` Pankaj Jangid
2023-10-22 16:22     ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-10-22 16:29     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-10-22 16:53       ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-10-22 17:00         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-10-22 17:05           ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-10-22 17:11             ` Eric Abrahamsen
2023-10-23  7:39               ` Pankaj Jangid
2023-10-23 12:16                 ` Adam Sjøgren
2023-10-23 14:41                   ` Pankaj Jangid
2023-10-23 18:38                     ` Adam Sjøgren [this message]
2023-10-24  4:33                       ` Pankaj Jangid
2023-10-23 19:15                     ` Björn Bidar
     [not found]                     ` <1427.43186313368$1698088555@news.gmane.org>
2023-10-24  4:43                       ` Pankaj Jangid
2023-10-23 17:12                 ` Eric S Fraga
2023-10-24  4:28                   ` Pankaj Jangid
2023-10-24  6:14                     ` Eric S Fraga

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