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bug#21462: 25.0.50; Gnus thread gathering and sorting inverted
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#21462: 25.0.50; Gnus thread gathering and sorting inverted |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Feb 2016 11:50:54 +1100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@cert.org> writes:
>>> 1) gnus-make-threads -> gathers articles into threads by ref
>>> 2) gnus-cut-threads -> removes "uninteresting" articles from the
>>> threads
>>> 3) gnus-sort-threads -> sorts the threads (with respect to each other
>>> thread)
>>> 4) gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function -> gathers threads with
>>> similar characteristics (subject, reference) into a single thread
>>> 5) gnus-sort-gathered-threads -> sorts the articles within each thread
[...]
> Is there a good reason for step 3 and 4 above to be in the given order
> instead of the reverse?
I think the reason they are in that order is for historical (and
backwards compatible) reasons: The predicates that work on thread
sorting will normally fail on gathered threads (which are lists of
thread roots). I think.
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