From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17285 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Sort groups in topic descending by name Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 02:44:05 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87r3wa29wa.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418003114 7593 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 01:45:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 01:45:14 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 02:45:09 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XxnNs-0000VQ-7I for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 02:45:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59766 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxnNr-00033f-S2 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 20:45:07 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 64 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:UDUbM1nMblU1w2reeiby3gpla70= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:88414 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17285 Archived-At: Nikolaus Rath 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