From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sort groups in topic descending by name
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 02:44:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3wa29wa.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.15481.1417997314.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:
> I would like to sort the groups in one topic by
> descending name, and in another topic by ascending
> name.
>
> It sounds simply
No - it sounds complicated and unnecessary :)
> G S a in the group buffer always sorts all groups,
> even if I first set the process mark on one topic.
The docs doesn't say anything about mark in Emacs 24.4
(and `gnus-version' 5.13):
(gnus-group-sort-groups-by-alphabet &optional REVERSE)
Sort the group buffer alphabetically by group name.
If REVERSE, sort in reverse order.
> C-u G S a sorts by descending name, but the
> documentation says this should happen when I give it
> a symbolic, rather than numeric prefix.
Perhaps we have different documentations because what
I see is the above. It doesn't say anything about the
influence of the numeric argument (which it should, I
think, even though it is a common interface in the
Emacs world).
> M-i is supposed to give me a symbolic prefix, but is
> actually bound to tab-to-tab-stop.
Yes - your docs are creative. But check out
`gnus-symbolic-argument' if (?) you need that:
(gnus-symbolic-argument &optional ARG)
Read a symbolic argument and a command, and then
execute command.
> G P a does, as far as I can tell, nothing at all, no
> matter if I mark some groups and if I give it a
> prefix.
It does something for me on `C-u G P a'.
Here is a good opportunity to develop your jedi-master
skills because it seems both the numeric and the
symbolic prefixes are at play:
(gnus-group-sort-selected-groups-by-alphabet
&optional N REVERSE)
Sort the group buffer alphabetically by group
name. Obeys the process/prefix convention. If
REVERSE (the symbolic prefix), sort in reverse
order.
"Obeys the process/prefix convention." :)
--
underground experts united
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