Adam Sjøgren <a...@koldfront.dk> writes: > Pankaj writes: > >> E 20-10-23 23:18 PM [ 107: Victor Giordano ] => Re: [go-nuts] Re: About >> allowing conversion from bool to int >> O 21-10-23 02:44 AM [ 123: Victor Giordano ] +-> >> O 21-10-23 03:17 AM [ 142: Volker Dobler ] +-> >> O 21-10-23 06:01 AM [ 21: Ian Lance Taylor] +-> >> O 21-10-23 08:44 AM [ 57: Victor Giordano ] +-> >> E 21-10-23 18:27 PM [ 69: Victor Giordano ] +-> >> O 21-10-23 03:44 AM { 179: Victor Giordano } +-> Fwd: [go-nuts] >> Re: About allowing conversion from bool to int >> >> In the above snapshot, items are still ordered incorrectly. > > Just to make sure: you are expecting the article in the last row to be > shown in the 4th row?
No. I want the indentation to be proper. It cannot be child of a later message. > I would expect the reason that the last line is put last is because > the References: header includes the Message-ID of the second to last > article. > > Is that not the case? As we can see this is not possible. Becase the second last message came after the last one. > But wait, the curly braces means "adopted". What does that mean? > > · https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Loose-Threads.html > > What happens if you change the value of gnus-summary-make-false-root? > Perhaps to nil? Wow. Good pointer. The default value of the variable is 'adopt'. I experimented with the other three possible values. And here are the results, along with the quoted docstring > If this variable is ‘adopt’, Gnus will make one of the "children" > the parent and mark all the step-children as such. > If this variable is ‘none’, Gnus will not make a false root, but just > present the sub-threads after another. (setq gnus-summary-make-false-root 'none) --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- E 20-10-23 23:18 PM [ 107: Victor Giordano ] => Re: [go-nuts] Re: About allowing conversion from bool to int O 21-10-23 02:44 AM [ 123: Victor Giordano ] | +-> O 21-10-23 03:17 AM [ 142: Volker Dobler ] | +-> O 21-10-23 06:01 AM [ 21: Ian Lance Taylor] | +-> O 21-10-23 08:44 AM [ 57: Victor Giordano ] | +-> E 21-10-23 18:27 PM [ 69: Victor Giordano ] | +-> O 21-10-23 03:44 AM [ 179: Victor Giordano ] => Fwd: [go-nuts] Re: About allowing conversion from bool to int --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > If this variable is ‘dummy’, Gnus will create a dummy root that will > have all the sub-threads as children. (setq gnus-summary-make-false-root 'dummy) --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- : : Re: [go-nuts] Re: About allowing conversion from bool to int E 20-10-23 23:18 PM [ 107: Victor Giordano ] +-> O 21-10-23 02:44 AM [ 123: Victor Giordano ] | +-> O 21-10-23 03:17 AM [ 142: Volker Dobler ] | +-> O 21-10-23 06:01 AM [ 21: Ian Lance Taylor] | +-> O 21-10-23 08:44 AM [ 57: Victor Giordano ] | +-> E 21-10-23 18:27 PM [ 69: Victor Giordano ] | +-> O 21-10-23 03:44 AM [ 179: Victor Giordano ] +-> Fwd: [go-nuts] Re: About allowing conversion from bool to int --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > If this variable is ‘empty’, the "children" are printed with empty > subject fields. (Or rather, they will be printed with a string given > by the ‘gnus-summary-same-subject’ variable.) (setq gnus-summary-make-false-root 'empty) --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- E 20-10-23 23:18 PM [ 107: Victor Giordano ] => Re: [go-nuts] Re: About allowing conversion from bool to int O 21-10-23 02:44 AM [ 123: Victor Giordano ] | +-> O 21-10-23 03:17 AM [ 142: Volker Dobler ] | +-> O 21-10-23 06:01 AM [ 21: Ian Lance Taylor] | +-> O 21-10-23 08:44 AM [ 57: Victor Giordano ] | +-> E 21-10-23 18:27 PM [ 69: Victor Giordano ] | +-> O 21-10-23 03:44 AM [ 179: Victor Giordano ] => Fwd: [go-nuts] Re: About allowing conversion from bool to int --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I think 'none' and 'empty' works best for the situation. May be I should try each of these for a couple of days and decide.