From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org, notmuch@freelists.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] sorting: add the ability to sort by from and subject
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 19:02:44 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760cyxgu3.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2vmw6ev.fsf@jb55.com>
William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> writes:
> William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> writes:
>
>> Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:
>>
>>> The implementation seems simple enough, but what's the use case, really?
>>
>> I get all of my rss feeds sent to my inbox, I wanted to be able to group
>> similar feeds (mainly by from, sometimes subject). Alternatively if
>> there was a way to group by tags I could do it that way, but I don't tag
>> all of my individual feeds.
>>
>> If this is too obscure of a use case please feel free to ignore!
>
> A use case for the subject sort is my github tag. Since the repo name is
> at the start of the subject line, it sorts by repo so I can quickly skim
> across all the issues/prs in all the github repos I follow
It seems worth mentioning that it's possible to preprocess values into
keys (see Xapian::Enquire::set_sort_by_key). So things like Re:
etc... could be stripped.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-04 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-04 16:00 [PATCH 1/3] sorting: add the ability to sort by from and subject William Casarin
2017-09-04 16:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] sorting: update ruby bindings for " William Casarin
2017-09-04 16:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] sorting: update man page William Casarin
2017-09-04 19:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] sorting: add the ability to sort by from and subject Jani Nikula
[not found] ` <87wp5ew7v6.fsf@jb55.com>
2017-09-04 20:33 ` William Casarin
2017-09-04 22:02 ` David Bremner [this message]
2017-09-07 19:42 ` William Casarin
2017-09-10 0:17 ` [PATCH] emacs: replace oldest-first with sort-order William Casarin
2017-09-10 0:35 ` [PATCH v2] " William Casarin
2017-09-10 1:21 ` William Casarin
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