From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: rmail: summary sort Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:39:09 +0300 Message-ID: References: <200708300525.l7U5P447006843@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188506373 25598 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2007 20:39:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:39:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 30 22:39:32 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 1IQqnX-0006N3-GY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:39:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQqnX-0002o5-3I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IQqnK-0002np-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:39:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IQqnI-0002nb-GJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:39:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IQqnI-0002nY-CD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:39:12 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IQqnH-0007qT-VW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:39:12 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-254-135.inter.net.il [84.229.254.135]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id ITR65503 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:39:02 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <200708300525.l7U5P447006843@localhost.localdomain> (message from Xavier Maillard on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:25:04 +0200) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:46991 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:25:04 +0200 > From: Xavier Maillard > 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.