Sort thread by most recent poster

Sort thread by most recent poster

[Peter Wu]

I want  to customize the sorting  of the Summary Buffer  by adding the
following to my .gnus file. 


;; sort the summary buffer
(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
      '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number
	gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date))


What I want to realize is  the sorting means employed by Google, which
is the thread that has the most recent post shows up first. 

I tried  this sorting in  slrn but was  told impossible to  realize in
current version and I'd like to know if Gnus can do this job and how. Thanks!

-- 
Peter Y. Wu

"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." -- Socrates

Re: Sort thread by most recent poster

[Kai Großjohann]

Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:

> What I want to realize is  the sorting means employed by Google, which
> is the thread that has the most recent post shows up first. 

In Oort Gnus, this is possible using the following:

(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number))

I think it makes no sense to sort by date, as the number is the
arrival date and the date is the departure date -- these presumably
have a very high correlation.  Sorting by date is much slower than
sorting by number.

kai
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