Re: Sorting with threads in Gnus

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hi,

> As for the original problem, the test thread is now sorted like this:
>
> O. 2013-07-07 02:48   Chris Seberino         ● Trouble binding Alt ...
> O. 2013-07-07 03:46   Pascal J. Bourguigno   ┣━□ 
> O. 2013-07-07 09:19   Yuri Khan              ┣━□ 
> O. 2013-07-07 03:51   Peter Dyballa          ┣━□ 
> O. 2013-07-07 08:14   Bob Proulx             ┣━□ 
> O. 2013-07-07 10:38   Chris Seberino         ┗━■ 
> O. 2013-07-07 18:21   Pascal J. Bourguigno     ┣━□ 
> O. 2013-07-08 02:20   Chris Seberino           ┃ ┗━■ 
> O. 2013-07-08 03:36   Pascal J. Bourguigno     ┃   ┗━■ 
> O. 2013-07-07 17:54   Raffaele Ricciardi       ┗━■ 
>
> It isn't quite the ascending order by date within the thread: Yuri
> Khan's article should've been two positions below, and Raffaele
> Ricciardi's three positions above.

Some time ago, I think I had the same problem.  The solution for me was

  (setq gnus-summary-make-false-root 'empty)

Can you try that?

In my case, the problem was how gathered threads were attached to a
false root.  With the default value 'adopt of
`gnus-summary-make-false-root', AFAIKT the gathered subthreads attached
to the false root appear in the order they are in your inbox, so that
the collected thread is indeed not sorted (although all subthreads are).


Regards,

Michael.