thread sorting ideas
Tim Stoakes
notmuch at stoakes.net
Wed Jun 23 00:25:33 PDT 2010
Dirk Hohndel(hohndel at infradead.org)@210610-09:03:
> Here is a feature that I could really use some times...
>
> Instead of sorting the threads based on the date of the first message in
> the thread, sort them based on the newest message in the thread. So if I
> take a quick look at the bottom (I am an "oldest first" kinda person) of
> a search and I see all the threads that have the newest messages.
Indeed, this would be akin to mutt's:
set sort=threads
set sort_aux=last-date
I think. Indispensable!
Tim
> My suggestion would be to turn 'o' into a two key command:
>
> o-o : oldest first, sort by oldest message in thread
> o-O : oldest first, sort by newest message in thread
> o-n : newest first, sort by oldest message in thread
> o-N : newest first, sort by newest message in thread
> o-s : sort by subject?
> o-z : unthreaded, sort by message size?
>
> you can come up with many more sort ideas...
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Tim Stoakes
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