Christoph Groth wrote:
> I have set gnus-thread-sort-functions to
> '(gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number) and this works as it should.
>
> Now I would like to reverse the sorting order so that the order of
> threads is consistent with the chronological order of messages within
> a thread.
I managed to solve the problem myself and reply here for reference. It
turns out that the threads that were sorted incorrectly were those with
missing messages.
For
(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
'(gnus-thread-sort-by-number
(not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number)))
to work, i.e. for chronological sorting of threads according to the most
recent article, I also need to enable sparse threads:
(setq gnus-build-sparse-threads 'more)
Otherwise, the determination of the most recent number seems to be
hindered by missing articles. However, if
gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number is not reversed, it seems to work
also without sparse threads.
After 20 years of using Gnus I'm still amazed how cool it is and how
arcane...
I guess that this problem would deserve being "fixed" in some way
(i.e. by clarifying documentation). Should I write to the emacs-devel
mailing list? Or is this issue not important enough?
Christoph
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