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Re: [Mutt] #463: mailbox sort order for MH folders is not MH sort



#463: mailbox sort order for MH folders is not MH sort order

Changes (by brendan):

  * milestone:  => 1.6

Old description:

> {{{
> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.2.5i
> Severity: normal
>
> -- Please type your report below this line
>
> In MH folders, sort order is by number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., 10, 11, ...,
> 100
> etc.
>
> When mutt -R -f aMHMailbox is used the sort order seems to be something
> based on order in directory, which is nothing like MH sort order.
>
> I'm using the mutt package from SuSE 7.0.
>
> -- Mutt Version Information
>
> Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28)
> Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others.
> Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
> Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
>
> System: Linux 2.2.16 [using ncurses 5.0]
> Compile options:
> -DOMAIN
> -DEBUG
> -HOMESPOOL  -USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  -USE_FCNTL  +USE_FLOCK
> +USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  -USE_SSL  +USE_POP  +HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX
> +HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_PGP  -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  +ENABLE_NLS
> SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> MAILPATH="/var/mail"
> SHAREDIR="/usr/share/mutt"
> SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
> ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
> To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>.
> To report a bug, please use the muttbug utility.
>

> --- Begin /home/ken/.muttrc
> set pager_context=4
> set pager_stop
> bind  pager <backspace> previous-page
> bind  pager -           previous-line
> bind  pager \eOm        previous-line
> bind  pager +           next-line
> bind  pager \eOk        next-line
> bind  pager \eOM        next-line
> bind  pager \e[1~       top
> bind  pager \e[4~       bottom
> bind  index <backspace> previous-entry
> bind  index -           previous-entry
> bind  index \eOm        previous-entry
> bind  index +           next-entry
> bind  index \eOk        next-entry
> bind  index \eOM        display-message
> bind  index \e[H        first-entry
> bind  index \e[F        last-entry
> bind  index \e[1~       first-entry
> bind  index \e[4~       last-entry
> bind  alias   <space>   select-entry
> bind  alias   x         exit
> bind  attach  x         exit
> bind  browser x         exit
> mono  message    bold
> color message    white          red
> color error      brightyellow   red
> color indicator  white          red
> color tree       brightmagenta  default
> color signature  red            default
> color attachment brightyellow   red
> color search     brightyellow   red
> color tilde      brightmagenta  default
> color markers    brightmagenta  default
> color quoted     blue           default
> color quoted1    magenta        default
> color quoted2    red            default
> color quoted3    green          default
> color quoted4    cyan           default
> color quoted5    blue           default
> color quoted6    magenta        default
> color quoted7    red            default
> color quoted8    green          default
> color quoted9    cyan           default
> color hdrdefault brightred      default
> color header     brightmagenta  default  "^(from):"
> color header     brightblue     default  "^(subject):"
> color body       brightcyan     default  \
> "((ftp|http|https)://|(file|mailto|news):|www\\.)[-a-z@0-9_.:]*[a-z0-9](/[^][{}
> \t\n\r\"<>()]*[^][{} \t\n\r\"<>().,:])?"
> color body       brightcyan     default  "[-a-z_0-9.+]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+"
> color body       red            default  "(^|
> )\\*[-a-z0-9äöüß*]+\\*[,.?]?[ \n]"
> ignore *
> unignore To: From: Subject: Date: Reply-To:
> set mbox_type=MH
> set sort=date
> set status_on_top
> set wait_key
> --- End /home/ken/.muttrc
>

> --- Begin /etc/Muttrc
> ignore "from " received content- mime-version status x-status message-id
> ignore sender references return-path lines
> macro index \eb '/~b ' 'search in message bodies'
> macro index \cb |urlview\n 'call urlview to extract URLs out of a
> message'
> macro pager \cb |urlview\n 'call urlview to extract URLs out of a
> message'
> macro generic <f1> "!less /usr/share/doc/packages/mutt/manual.txt\n"
> "Show Mutt documentation"
> macro index   <f1> "!less /usr/share/doc/packages/mutt/manual.txt\n"
> "Show Mutt documentation"
> macro pager   <f1> "!less /usr/share/doc/packages/mutt/manual.txt\n"
> "Show Mutt documentation"
> --- End /etc/Muttrc
>

>
> >How-To-Repeat:
> >Fix:
> }}}

New description:

 In MH folders, sort order is by number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., 10, 11, ...,
 100
 etc.

 When mutt -R -f aMHMailbox is used the sort order seems to be something
 based on order in directory, which is nothing like MH sort order.

 I'm using the mutt package from SuSE 7.0.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/463#comment:1>