Subject: Re: bug#35513: (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number)) seems not to work always.

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:22:12 +0200

Uwe Brauer <[email-masked]> writes:

> (setq gnus-thread-ignore-subject nil)

[...]

> Now I reply to  89536, change the subject but leave the reference
> intact, that results in   89540, placed *before* 89538, which is not
> correct. 

Yes -- the sorting is done before splitting threads up based on the
gnus-thread-ignore-subject, which seems like a bug.

Fixing this rather obscure problem would require traversing the thread
structure once more, which I'm not sure is worth it...

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