* Re: sorting by date
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@ 2016-11-29 9:43 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-12-02 10:04 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Eric S Fraga @ 2016-11-29 9:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andreas Schwab; +Cc: info-gnus-english
On Friday, 25 Nov 2016 at 11:13, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Nov 25 2016, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> For this group, I have tried specifying
>>
>> (gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-date
>> gnus-thread-sort-by-total-score))
>>
>> in the parameters list for the group.
>
> How exactly did you do that? Methinks that there should not be a quote
> character.
Actually, there does need to be a quote, it would seem. At least, it
doesn't grok the line properly without it.
In any case, I have tracked down the problem. The variable (not
customisable):
,----[ C-h v gnus-sort-gathered-threads-function RET ]
| gnus-sort-gathered-threads-function is a variable defined in ‘gnus-sum.el’.
| Its value is ‘gnus-thread-sort-by-date’
|
| This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.
|
| Documentation:
| Function called to sort the articles within a thread after it has been gathered together.
|
| [back]
`----
defaults to gnus-thread-sort-by-number. Changing this (as above) does
the job for me. This does mean, to me, that the documentation on
threads and scoring is misleading, especially with respect to
gnus-subthread-sort-functions...
thanks,
eric
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2016-11-29 9:43 ` sorting by date Eric S Fraga
@ 2016-12-02 10:04 ` Eric S Fraga
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From: Eric S Fraga @ 2016-12-02 10:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
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On Friday, 25 Nov 2016 at 11:13, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Nov 25 2016, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> For this group, I have tried specifying
>>
>> (gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-date
>> gnus-thread-sort-by-total-score))
>>
>> in the parameters list for the group.
>
> How exactly did you do that? Methinks that there should not be a quote
> character.
I've tried to reply to the list twice now with no effect... my emails
are getting lost.
Anyway, third time lucky hopefully:
The quote was necessary. Without the quote, the setting was ignored.
In any case, I found the solution. This variable,
gnus-sort-gathered-threads-function
controls the behaviour I wanted to change. It is not a customisable
variable which is why I didn't find it immediately. It is set to sort
by number; I changed it to sort by date and I'm a happy camper.
thanks,
eric
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