Re: rmail: summary sort

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:25:04 +0200
> From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
> Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr
> 
> "The Rmail sort commands perform a stable sort: if there is no
> reason to prefer either one of two messages, their order remains
> unchanged. You can use this to sort by more than one criterion.
> For example, if you use rmail-sort-by-date and then
> rmail-sort-by-author, messages from the same author appear in
> order by date."
> 
> I tried to do this but, either the manual is wrong or me but the
> summary is just not sorted like it says.

This works for me as the manual says.  What version of Emacs are you
using, and on what platform?

Please describe _exactly_ what commands you invoked and in what order,
and also what you expected to see vs what you actually saw.

> So, how do you really sort by author plus date ?

Like the manual says, at least in Emacs v22.1.