Re: Correct ordering of items in mail threads

[Pankaj Jangid]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Saturday, 21 Oct 2023 at 10:41, Pankaj Jangid wrote:
>>  ;; Threading
>>  '(gnus-thread-sort-functions
>>    '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number))
>>  '(gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function
>>    'gnus-gather-threads-by-references)
>>
>
> I have
>
> (setq gnus-sort-gathered-threads-function 'gnus-thread-sort-by-date)
>
> along with similar (but slightly different) settings for the variables
> you've set.  This variable says how to sort *within* a thread which may
> be what you are looking for.

In fact, I wanted to use 'gnus-thread-sort-by-date for
gnus-thread-sort-functions. But the docstring discouraged me.

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Also note that sorting by date is often much slower than sorting by
number, and the sorting order is very similar.  (Sorting by date means
sorting by the time the message was sent, sorting by number means
sorting by arrival time.)
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