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- From: adam@dadhb1.ti.com (Adam Hudd)
- Subject: Re: pointer to article collector?
- In-Reply-To: Jamie Zawinski's message of Wed, 12 Aug 92 20:21:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <ADAM.92Aug14135324@node_4914a.dadhb1.ti.com>
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- References: olstad@msc.edu (Ken Olstad) <9208111644.AA02052@kl.msc.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:53:24 GMT
-
- In article Jamie Zawinski writes:
- (Bill Trost) wrote:
- >> have you (or anyone else) looked at making it clever enough to determine
- >> what order the messages "should" be in? It should be possible to make it
- >> look at the subject lines to determine that "[1/3]" comes before "[2/3]",
- >> for example.
-
- >That would be nice, but I haven't done it. If sorting alphabetically
- >doesn't do it, then I usually just turn off the read-only flag in the
- >Subject buffer and reorder the messages by hand before marking them. Kinda
- >low-tech, but it gets the job done...
-
- Just to add my $0.02 worth, I usually find that 'M-x
- gnus-Subject-sort-by-number' does the trick; assuming that the original poster
- posted them one after another.
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