unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rmail: summary sort
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 10:21:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709020821.l828LRGO005418@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uodgobvv6.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:39:09 +0300)

Hi Eli,

   > 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?

I am using GNU Emacs 23.0.51.2 on Slackware GNU/linux 12.0.

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

I did things in this precise order:

M-x rmail RET
M-x rmail-sort-by-author RET
M-x rmail-sort-by-date RET

In the end I just had messages sorted by date but not by author.
What I would have expected to see (according to my understanding
of the manual) is this

author-a date1
author-a date2
author-a date3
author-b date2
author-b date3

But I got:

author-a date1
author-a date2
author-b date2
author-a date3
author-b date3

that is to say I only got mails sorted by date and not sorted by
author plus sorted by date.

Apart this, I also need to know how to sort my mails according to
my taste on rmail startup.

Regards,

	Xavier
-- 
http://www.gnu.org
http://www.april.org
http://www.lolica.org

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-02  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-30  5:25 rmail: summary sort Xavier Maillard
2007-08-30 20:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-02  8:21   ` Xavier Maillard [this message]
2007-09-02 19:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-03  1:00       ` Xavier Maillard

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=200709020821.l828LRGO005418@localhost.localdomain \
    --to=xma@gnu.org \
    --cc=eliz@gnu.org \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).