From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rmail: summary sort Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 03:00:40 +0200 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200709030100.l8310ew2008406@localhost.localdomain> References: <200708300525.l7U5P447006843@localhost.localdomain> <200709020821.l828LRGO005418@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188785655 20426 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2007 02:14:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 02:14:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 03 04:14:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IS1Rv-0007PU-1m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:13:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IS1Rt-00064J-Tl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:13:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IS1N9-0002BB-54 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IS1N4-00028T-F2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:09:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IS1N4-00028I-4i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:08:58 -0400 Original-Received: from master.uucpssh.org ([193.218.105.66]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IS1Mx-0003H0-R3; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: by master.uucpssh.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id B27C4A7550; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 04:06:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1000@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8310e1J008409; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 03:00:40 +0200 Original-Received: (from xma@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id l8310ew2008406; Mon, 3 Sep 2007 03:00:40 +0200 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:33:25 +0300) User-Agent: Rmail in GNU Emacs 23.0.51.4 on GNU/Linux Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr X-uucpssh: Found to be clean X-uucpssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.4, required 4.6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.00, BAYES_00 -2.60, SPF_HELO_PASS -0.00) X-uucpssh-From: xma@gnu.org X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47132 Archived-At: Hey Eli, > 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 Try the other way around: first by date, then by author. That's much better. I am concluding that I misunderstood the manual then. > Apart this, I also need to know how to sort my mails according to > my taste on rmail startup. What is your taste? In fact, I want rmail to remember how I previously sorted my mails (see above) and keep on sorting this way. I do not know if it is doable currently though. Regards, Xavier -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org