From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rmail threading Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2021 10:16:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83wnnwx13g.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h7fcnmq0.fsf@posteo.net> <87o89kw0hl.fsf@gnus.org> <0c369b25-aedd-1fdf-4813-503f27e42c7c@yandex.ru> <874kbbznwv.fsf@gmail.com> <8735qvwcqt.fsf@gmail.com> <20210828065708.GA29375@tuxteam.de> <83o89gl8ae.fsf@gnu.org> <834kb7kue8.fsf@gnu.org> <834kb5u6gj.fsf@gnu.org> <83a6kvpjdc.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22411"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 04 09:17:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mMPvK-0005fp-Du for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 09:17:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42512 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMPvJ-0007gm-9n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 03:17:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34118) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMPuL-0006yK-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 03:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52764) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMPuK-0001Ky-TK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 03:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3021 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mMPuD-0000K5-Ss; Sat, 04 Sep 2021 03:16:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Fri, 03 Sep 2021 23:39:05 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273844 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 23:39:05 -0400 > > If you find thread movement commands convenient, by all means add > them. We are not forced to choose between summary generation and > movement commands for handling of threads. > > What I said was, I'd like to use these threads via a summary. To clarify: you want a summary of a single thread, or you want a summary of the entire RMAIL file by its threads? > I have 7000 messages in the RMAIL file -- to reorder them would take a > long time. And how would I restore the original order? You don't. Why would you want to? messages normally arrive in the order of their time stamps, the only deviations are due to problems with communications delays and servers being off-line. > How about creating a virtual reordering without actually > moving the messages around in the buffer? I'm not sure it will help, but I will think about it.