Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-13 Thread Tassilo Horn
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Hi Eric, No, I'm an idiot. It was a red herring -- looking at the wrong groups at the wrong time. The actual problem seems to be that thread sorting works correctly in all groups except my mail.* groups. Works right in nnmairix groups and my

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-12 Thread Tassilo Horn
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Is there a chance that you've set a different sorting strategy in the group you used for testing (e.g., as a group parameter which might end up in ~/.newsrc.eld)? What does `C-h v gnus-thread-sort-functions' in that wrongly sorted summary tell?

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-12 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Thu, Jul 12 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Is there a chance that you've set a different sorting strategy in the group you used for testing (e.g., as a group parameter which might end up in ~/.newsrc.eld)? What does `C-h v

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-12 Thread Tassilo Horn
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Hi Eric, Now the remaining, minor mystery is, what's the difference between this in my .emacs: (custom-set-variables '(gnus-thread-sort-functions (quote (gnus-thread-sort-by-number (not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date and

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-12 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Thu, Jul 12 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Hi Eric, Now the remaining, minor mystery is, what's the difference between this in my .emacs: (custom-set-variables '(gnus-thread-sort-functions (quote (gnus-thread-sort-by-number (not

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-11 Thread Damien Wyart
* F. Durand fdur...@gmail.com in gnu.emacs.gnus: I've concluded that the state of a thread is the state of its first message. Thus, if you have an old thread with a new message, you won't remark it. It depends on the sorting function you choose... I am using this setting (for mails; for news I

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-11 Thread Tassilo Horn
F. Durand fdur...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I've switched to gnus 3 months ago, and I'm very disturbed by the way threads are sorted. I've read this many times: http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_91.html I've concluded that the state of a thread is the state of its first message. By default, Gnus

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-11 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Wed, Jul 11 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote: F. Durand fdur...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I've switched to gnus 3 months ago, and I'm very disturbed by the way threads are sorted. I've read this many times: http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_91.html I've concluded that the state of a thread is the

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-11 Thread Tassilo Horn
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Hi Eric, Okay, but this doesn't actually work as advertised… I've got: gnus-thread-sort-functions - ((not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date)) You should always include `gnus-thread-sort-by-number' in the list, probably as first (least

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-11 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Wed, Jul 11 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Hi Eric, Okay, but this doesn't actually work as advertised… I've got: gnus-thread-sort-functions - ((not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date)) You should always include `gnus-thread-sort-by-number'

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-11 Thread Tassilo Horn
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Okay, I added that in, but it didn't make any difference. I eval gnus-thread-sort-function: (gnus-thread-sort-by-number (not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date)) That's what it gives me. Strange, I'm running today's git gnus, but it has

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-11 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Thu, Jul 12 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: Okay, I added that in, but it didn't make any difference. I eval gnus-thread-sort-function: (gnus-thread-sort-by-number (not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date)) That's what it gives me. Strange,

Re: Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-11 Thread Damien Wyart
* Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net in gnu.emacs.gnus: I've also got: gnus-sort-gathered-threads-function - gnus-thread-sort-by-date Which I'd think was correct. If no one else sees this it must be something I did, but I can't imagine what! The default value for this one is

Deficient thread sorting in summary view

2012-07-10 Thread F . Durand
Hello all, I've switched to gnus 3 months ago, and I'm very disturbed by the way threads are sorted. I've read this many times: http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_91.html I've concluded that the state of a thread is the state of its first message. Thus, if you have an old thread with a new message,