On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:58:09PM -0700, John Iverson wrote:
> * On Fri, 05 Jul 2002, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Jul 2002, Raoul B�nisch wrote:
> >
> > > The setting "set sort=subject" should have no effect because it is
> > > overwritten by "set sort=threads". Or am I wrong here?
[...]
> > My mail is sorted by procmail in different folders ... everything that
> > does not match is directed to my main mbox ... here often mails arrive
> > that do not relate to the same subject ... but I wanted them to be
> > sorted ... so if mutt cannot find any threads it is sorting (better it
> > should) mails by subjects ...
>
> But you can't have $sort set to two different things at the same
> time. If, as you say, you are doing this:
>
> set sort=subject
> set sort=threads
> set sort_aux=date
>
> ... then you're setting $sort to subject and then wiping that out
> and setting it to threads. You can verify the actual value by
> typing the following within mutt:
>
> :set ?sort<enter>
That's what I mean. Those three lines could be cut down to two by
erasing the first. Though one configuration line is little
overhead. But it's less elegant.
Raoul
