GNU bug report logs - #35513
(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number)) seems not to work always.

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:01:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed, wontfix

Found in version 5.13

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 35513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 35513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#35513: (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
 '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number)) seems not to work always.
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:45:10 +0200

>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

   > Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub <at> gmail.com> writes:
   >> So you don't find it annoying and to difficult to implement and maybe
   >> to debug?

   > I think breaking threads on subject change is a misfeature, so enhancing
   > that misfeature doesn't seem appropriate.

So you are saying that if I change the subject line in a tread, I should
not break the thread?

I came to this feature by a recommendation of John Wiley.

If you change the subject, change the thread, for me that looks
logically, you say, no?
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