Re: sorting by date

[Eric S Fraga]

On Friday, 25 Nov 2016 at 11:13, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Nov 25 2016, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> For this group, I have tried specifying
>>
>> (gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-date
>> gnus-thread-sort-by-total-score))
>>
>> in the parameters list for the group.
>
> How exactly did you do that?  Methinks that there should not be a quote
> character.

I've tried to reply to the list twice now with no effect... my emails
are getting lost.

Anyway, third time lucky hopefully:

The quote was necessary.  Without the quote, the setting was ignored.

In any case, I found the solution.  This variable,

    gnus-sort-gathered-threads-function

controls the behaviour I wanted to change.  It is not a customisable
variable which is why I didn't find it immediately.  It is set to sort
by number; I changed it to sort by date and I'm a happy camper.

thanks,
eric

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