kevin wrote: > > On 11 October 2012 at 10:35, Joel Uckelman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Speaking for myself only: I can't recall a single time in 15 years of > > using nmh that I've wanted to use sortm to sort less than a complete > > folder. > > I have two use cases for sortm > > 1. sortm +folder > > 2. sortm -textfield subject -limit 0 +folder >
does that actually work for you? i like catching up on mail in subject thread order. the man page says that "-textfield subject -limit 0" should sort in subject-major, date-minor order, which i think is what i want -- messages grouped by subject, and by date within each subject. but, in a folder with these messages: $ scan last:6 9891 12:40 Sally Moulton [arlington] Solarize Mass reps speak tonight, 9893 12:19 David Levine Re: [Nmh-workers] sortm's Default of all is Br 9894 12:37 To:[email protected] RSS feeds 9899 05:51 "T-Alerts Notific Red Line Braintree Alert 9900 14:32 Ralph Corderoy [Nmh-workers] sortm's Default of all is Brain- 9901 11:37 To:[email protected] RSS feeds $ sortm -textfield subject -limit 0 last:6 $ scan last:6 9891 12:40 Sally Moulton [arlington] Solarize Mass reps speak tonight, 9893 12:19 David Levine Re: [Nmh-workers] sortm's Default of all is Br 9894 14:32 Ralph Corderoy [Nmh-workers] sortm's Default of all is Brain- 9899 05:51 "T-Alerts Notific Red Line Braintree Alert 9900 12:37 To:[email protected] RSS feeds 9901 11:37 To:[email protected] RSS feeds note that ralph's 14:32 message really is earlier than david's 12:19 reply, due to timezone. the subject ordering is correct, but the date ordering is reversed from chronological. paul --- somewhat unrelated but quite useful workaround follows --- the following commands are my workaround: sortm sortm -textfield subject i've put the messages back in the original order to start: $ scan last:6 9915 12:40 Sally Moulton [arlington] Solarize Mass reps speak tonight, 9916 12:19 David Levine Re: [Nmh-workers] sortm's Default of all is Br 9917 12:37 To:[email protected] RSS feeds 9918 05:51 "T-Alerts Notific Red Line Braintree Alert 9919 14:32 Ralph Corderoy [Nmh-workers] sortm's Default of all is Brain- 9920 11:37 To:[email protected] RSS feeds $ sortm last:6 $ scan last:6 9915 05:51 "T-Alerts Notific Red Line Braintree Alert 9916 14:32 Ralph Corderoy [Nmh-workers] sortm's Default of all is Brain- 9917 11:37 To:[email protected] RSS feeds 9918 12:37 To:[email protected] RSS feeds 9919 12:40 Sally Moulton [arlington] Solarize Mass reps speak tonight, 9920 12:19 David Levine Re: [Nmh-workers] sortm's Default of all is Br $ sortm -textfield subject last:6 $ scan last:6 9915 05:51 "T-Alerts Notific Red Line Braintree Alert 9916 14:32 Ralph Corderoy [Nmh-workers] sortm's Default of all is Brain- 9917 12:19 David Levine Re: [Nmh-workers] sortm's Default of all is Br 9918 11:37 To:[email protected] RSS feeds 9919 12:37 To:[email protected] RSS feeds 9920 12:40 Sally Moulton [arlington] Solarize Mass reps speak tonight, this isn't subject-major, but that's okay for my purposes: having the threads sorted in thread commencement order is actually more useful than alphabetic. =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 51.4 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
