* On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 11:05PM -0500 Zhengquan Zhang (zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com) muttered: > folder-hook . set sort=threads > > set sort=threads > > Basically they do the same thing. Is there anything I am missing here?
Yes, they do the same thing - unless sort is changed by another folder-hook for some folders. What you quote is what we call a default hook. It provides the generic default case and is overwritten by the special case. For example: folder-hook . set sort=threads folder-hook +spam 'set sort=spam' When you enter the spam folder the sorting is changed to the spam rating. Now when you change to another folder you need a mechanism to change it back. Thus the default hook. Provided you had only: set sort=threads folder-hook +spam 'set sort=spam' Once mutt parses the rc file you would have sort=threads. But if you changed to the spam folder it would be sort=spam as intended. Only how do you get it back now? You don't - you need the default hook. As it is the case with all -hooks btw. HTH, Michael -- "It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God." (By Matt Welsh) PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC1A44DD Jabber: init...@amessage.de
