Daniel Eisenbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something to this effect on 02/06/2002: > I've been planning to do this for a while. > > It seems to me that the only time that more than two levels of > sorting is useful is when the first level is threads. If > anyone can give me a plausible scenario where they'd want more > than three, or more than two unthreaded, I'll think about my > approach. But for the moment the right thing to do seems to be > to break threading out into its own config variable. So you > can set > > threads=forward > threads=reverse > or > threads=off > > and then sort and sort_aux are what's used for secondary and > tertiary sorting, or primary and secondary if threads=off. > Make sense to people?
Simple, elegent, and, at least in my experience, consistent with how people use mutt. Go for it! Just out of curiosity, though, is there a possibility that this will postpone the release of 1.4? (darren) -- All things are possible, except for skiing through a revolving door.
