William Casarin <j...@jb55.com> writes: > David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> writes: > >> I started looking at William's sorting patches [1], but the >> proliferation of sorting options bugged me a bit. I decided to sketch >> out a new more flexible API. >> >> In the new API, there is is a sort "key", currently mapped one-to-one >> to value slots, but potentially could do more sophisticated things >> like making keys up dynamically (e.g. preprocessing subjects). >> >> The second parameter is a sort "type". Currently this is just >> ascending or descending, but other potential options include >> sort_by_relevance_then_value > > > Another thought I had that I wanted to throw out there for > consideration. It would be nice to be able to sort by "popular" threads, > aka sort by the number of messages in each thread. Not sure if this is > an easy thing to do at the query level?
I don't see how to manage it as a xapian query. In the current database schema xapian doesn't really know about threads, except that messages know what thread they belong to. _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch