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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: meOme <jan-adams@gmx.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: notmuch show get newest message first
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meOme <jan-adams@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi!
> Is it possible to get the newest message first in a result of notmuch show?
> The result always shows a reply to a message after the message. But as the
> reply is newer than the original message the sorting within the replies is
> oldest first. It would be great to have "newest-first".
> Is that possible?
> Thanks a lot for not much.
>

If you refer notmuch-show mode in the emacs interface, the order is
defined by a topological sort of the tree of replies.  It's currently
not possible to reverse it; I guess it's possible in principle, but
notice the last displayed message is not neccesarily the last bye date.