Re: sort/sort_aux different for sorting threads and sorting within
> set sort=reverse-threade
> set sort_aux=last-date-received
No, I'm afraid that doesn't work either. As I've said, I've tried all 4
combinations of:
threads/last-date-received, reverse-threads/last-date-received,
threads/reverse-last-date-received, reverse-threads/reverse-last-date-received
That particular combination sorts the threads themselves in the order I'd like,
but WITHIN a thread is reverse of the order that I want. (e.g. newer messages
are sorted above older messages).
As I asked in my original post:
> is it possible to use a different sort for sorting threads and sorting
> messages within a thread?
The problem (I think) with all 4 of these approaches is that sort_aux presently
applies both to sorting threads and to sorting branches within threads, where I
fundamentally want a different sort for the threads and the branches within
threads. Toggling reverse on threads does indeed invert everything, but it
applies at all levels, and does not change the fact that what I want are
different sorts at the thread level and thread-branch level.
What I want might be described as
sort=threads
sort_aux=last-date-received
sort_threads=reverse-last-date-received
But presently I don't think there's a way to specify that. Once we've all
agreed on that (which it doesn't seem we have yet), the question becomes:
(1) is this a feature other people would like, and should exist somehow,
(2) how hard is it to patch mutt to allow this, and
(3) what is the right way to add this?
Thanks -
Chip
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Chip Killian
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