From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rmail: summary sort
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:39:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uodgobvv6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708300525.l7U5P447006843@localhost.localdomain> (message from Xavier Maillard on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:25:04 +0200)
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:25:04 +0200
> From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
> Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr
>
> "The Rmail sort commands perform a stable sort: if there is no
> reason to prefer either one of two messages, their order remains
> unchanged. You can use this to sort by more than one criterion.
> For example, if you use rmail-sort-by-date and then
> rmail-sort-by-author, messages from the same author appear in
> order by date."
>
> 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?
Please describe _exactly_ what commands you invoked and in what order,
and also what you expected to see vs what you actually saw.
> So, how do you really sort by author plus date ?
Like the manual says, at least in Emacs v22.1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-30 20:39 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 [this message]
2007-09-02 8:21 ` Xavier Maillard
2007-09-02 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-03 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
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