On August 10, 2002 at 21:12, Alan Burlison wrote: > I've come to the conclusion that what I want isn't that sensible anyway - I > can just create a resource variable with the html link in it and then stick > that on the generated pages as normal.
I did not fully realize that you were trying to create a link in the subject text itself. I agree that having a custom resource variable is better. > What might be more generally useful is a way of overriding the 'sort by > subject' function - for example in my case I could look in the subject for a > bugid, so that mails would sort as I require even if the bugid wasn't the > first word in the subject. The current code base is not abstracted well enough to make this clean. It would require knowing some internals. Also, and maybe more important, is the sorting would be slow. You'd probably have to pre-extract bug id information and sort on that to avoid extracting the bug id everytime a key comparison is done. If you look at the sort_messages() routine in mhutil.pl, you will see that I do some pre-processing before the actual sort for subject- and author-based sorting to minimize the comparison computation during the sort. A potential hack is to actual modify the subject as before, but instead of trying to put a hyperlink in it, you prefix it with the relevant bug id. This way, if you do a subject sort, you may get the kind of grouping you desire. --ewh --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE MHONARC-USERS
