On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:37:05AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Since I switched to mutt full time a couple of months ago, there were > times when I missed one feature or another from other agents, but mostly > I learned to live with the mutt way. > > However, this one keeps getting on my frail nerves. There seems to be > no way in vanilla mutt to sort the index view such that the latest > message appears last, when threading is on. So when I open a folder > with a long active thread, I keep landing in the middle of old inactive > threads. > > A minimal example would be: > > 1 2015-07-01 Mr Foo Boring subject > 2 2015-07-02 Miss Bar Exciting subject > N 3 2015-07-13 Mr Foo |-> Re: Exciting subject > 4 2015-07-03 Mr Foobar Another boring subject > > I want: > > 1 2015-07-01 Mr Foo Boring subject > 2 2015-07-03 Mr Foobar Another boring subject > 3 2015-07-02 Miss Bar Exciting subject > N 4 2015-07-13 Mr Foo |-> Re: Exciting subject > > Perhaps there is a patch providing this? It must have been requested > before :)
Seems like you're looking for: set sort = threads set sort_aux = last-date-received (specifically the second line) -- mwnx GPG: AEC9 554B 07BD F60D 75A3 AF6A 44E8 E4D4 0312 C726
