* A tricky question in setting gnus-thread-sort-functions
@ 2009-05-31 18:55 Leo
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From: Leo @ 2009-05-31 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
Hi there,
I got a tricky question in setting gnus-thread-sort-functions. I'd like
top-level threads to sort by most recent number, i.e. a thread with the
most recent article should come first. But within each thread, the
articles should be sorted by number so that it is in a time ascending
order (roughly).
The reason I want this is so that when I reply to multiple articles
within a thread, the cited text appears in a correct order of time which
is essential for other people to understand.
Any idea how I may get gnus to do this?
The following is what I have tried.
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At the moment I am using
(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number))
In order to get what I want, gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number
should only be used on the top-level threads and within each top-level
thread use gnus-thread-sort-by-number to sort all articles in it.
I have tried
(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
'(gnus-thread-sort-by-number gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number))
An example of a thread is like this:
1 ! +|31-May| Leo |3.8k|^^|* longlines-mode and visual-line-mode
2 !A |31-May| Deniz Dogan |4.7k| |+->
3 ! +|31-May| Leo |4.3k|^^| |->
4 !A |31-May| David Reitter |5.0k| | | |->
5 ! +|31-May| Leo |5.1k|^^| | | +->
6 !A |31-May| Deniz Dogan |5.4k| | | +->
7 !A |31-May| Miles Bader |4.6k| | +->
But article at line 7 has a smaller number than article at line 3.
Best wishes,
Leo
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