On 11 October 2012 at 14:26, Paul Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? The first command sorts by date, which I want. The second command sorts by subject, which I want. I agree with you that the sub-sort by date doesn't work. I hadn't noticed that before. > 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 -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
