From: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Correct ordering of items in mail threads
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 21:45:29 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lebumy5a.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sf623nni.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> On Saturday, 21 Oct 2023 at 10:41, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
>> ;; Threading
>> '(gnus-thread-sort-functions
>> '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number))
>> '(gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function
>> 'gnus-gather-threads-by-references)
>>
>
> I have
>
> (setq gnus-sort-gathered-threads-function 'gnus-thread-sort-by-date)
>
> along with similar (but slightly different) settings for the variables
> you've set. This variable says how to sort *within* a thread which may
> be what you are looking for.
In fact, I wanted to use 'gnus-thread-sort-by-date for
gnus-thread-sort-functions. But the docstring discouraged me.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Also note that sorting by date is often much slower than sorting by
number, and the sorting order is very similar. (Sorting by date means
sorting by the time the message was sent, sorting by number means
sorting by arrival time.)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-22 16:16 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 [this message]
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
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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