Earl Hood wrote: > > 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.
Yes, a regexp evaluation per sort comparison would be kinda costly. > 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. Yeah, I wondered if that might work. This is all *such* fun :-) Thanks once again, -- Alan Burlison -- $ head -1 /dev/bollocks conveniently correlate front-end service point architectures --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE MHONARC-USERS
