[Pan-users] Re: Sorting threads to indicate recent activity

[Duncan]

Dr. Beverly Crusher posted <address@hidden>,
excerpted below,  on Mon, 01 Mar 2004 23:33:16 -0500:

> As threads receive new posts, they are resorted, with those receiving the
> most recent activity being placed at the top of the pile.  I like to read
> discussions showing both read and unread messages in Pan, so that I have
> context as I read new messages.  Since Pan sorts the threads in a group
> relative to each other based upon the first post (or effectively the
> *oldest* date in a thread), there is a tendency for long running threads
> to become lost, even when they receive new posts.
> 
> Is there any way, whether through scoring, feature request, or something
> else that I'm not thinking of, to sort the threads relative to one another
> based upon the most *recent* date within?

I don't believe that's directly possible, no.  However, I've assigned a
shortcut key (r) to the read-post filter, here, so I can toggle it at
will.  I find this quite useful, as I generally do NOT view read articles,
but if I need some removed context, I can simply toggle to view read view,
look up whatever context I needed, reply as needed, then turn view read
posts off again, with a single stroke of the "r" key.

That isn't what you want, but it might work, and does, here.

(See another current thread for a discussion of modifying the keyboard
accelerators, if you don't know how..)

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