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Re: Sorting headers in message viewer ?



On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 09:42:53PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote:
> Collecting the names of all the headers in either email, sorting
> them and feeding them to hdr_order is as time-consuming as the
> shell hackery I'm doing now and it's more error-prone.

Yeah, but your config (loaded at startup, or when you invoked a macro) could
name many headers, not just the ones in the two emails in question; thus,
you'd only need to edit the hdr_order list when you see (enough of) a header
that you haven't already added.

e.g. you feel the need to ensure that List-Id is sorted a particular way...
add it to the list.  You never have to add it again.  List-Post?  Add it once.
X-Been-There?  Add it once.  You never have to add anything twice.  The amount
of time you spend messing with hdr_order will drop off (probably
exponentially) over time.

> Now, if hdr_order was able to intepret lack of an argument as
> "sort everything in alphabetical order"... Or perhaps a trailing
> "*" as "sort any other headers in alphabetical order"...

That would indeed be useful.  Or regexps (e.g. hdr_order ^List- ^X-).

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Dave Evans
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