bug#18156: Thread sorting before loose threads are gathered

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com> writes:
>
>> Thread sorting happens before loose threads are gathered.  See the
>> definition of `gnus-summary-prepare'.  Threads are made, then cut, then
>> sorted, and then gathered.  I believe they should be made, cut,
>> gathered, and then sorted.  A consequence of the current order is that
>> using `gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-{number,date}' in the
>> `gnus-thread-sort-functions' will not pay attention to all messages in a
>> gathered thread.
>
> No, but you have `gnus-sort-gathered-threads-function' to sort inside
> the gathered threads, so I think the current algorithm is correct...

Correct or incorrect, it doesn't allow me to do what I want to do.  Here
is my use case:  I want to sort the threads in my summary buffer,
post-gathering, by the date of the most recent article in the thread.
If threads (not the articles in threads) are sorted before they are
gathered, this seems less than possible.

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Michael Welsh Duggan
(mwd@cert.org)