Re: Threads sorting doesn't work?

[Brady Trainor <algebrat@uw.edu>]

Andrey Lisin <andrey.lisin@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm new to Gnus and faced with the first troubles with it. I have
>
> (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
>       '(gnus-thread-sort-by-subject
>         (not gnus-thread-sort-by-total-score)
>         gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date))
>
> According to Gnus documentation threads should be sorted by the most
> recent date firstly. But what I see in summary buffer is the oldest
> threads go on top and the most recent go down. Am I doing something
> wrong?
>
> Thank you.

I was maybe as new as you not too long ago, and ran into a similar problem. It was because I had inadvertently toggled threading off, and this "mode" needed to have sorting enabled as well, a la article-thread-sort-functions. 

Perhaps this would work:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
      '((not gnus-thread-sort-by-date)))
(setq gnus-article-sort-functions
      '((not gnus-article-sort-by-date)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

HTH

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Brady