Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:55:33 +0930
From: Tim Stoakes <notmuch@stoakes.net>
To: Dirk Hohndel <hohndel@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: thread sorting ideas
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Dirk Hohndel(hohndel@infradead.org)@210610-09:03:
> Here is a feature that I could really use some times... 
> 
> Instead of sorting the threads based on the date of the first message in
> the thread, sort them based on the newest message in the thread. So if I
> take a quick look at the bottom (I am an "oldest first" kinda person) of
> a search and I see all the threads that have the newest messages.

Indeed, this would be akin to mutt's:
 set sort=threads
 set sort_aux=last-date
I think. Indispensable!

Tim

> My suggestion would be to turn 'o' into a two key command:
> 
> o-o : oldest first, sort by oldest message in thread
> o-O : oldest first, sort by newest message in thread
> o-n : newest first, sort by oldest message in thread
> o-N : newest first, sort by newest message in thread
> o-s : sort by subject?
> o-z : unthreaded, sort by message size?
> 
> you can come up with many more sort ideas...

-- 
Tim Stoakes