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Subject: Re: [notmuch] notmuch.el: Prefix arg inverts the sort order of
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:19:12 +0000, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
...

I think the correct thing here would be to let notmuch return search is
inverse sort order rather than reverting this later in the client
(unneccessary work). 

 --sort=oldest|newest|relevance 

seems to be what xapian can easily provide us with.