Re: Sorting the summary

[Eric Larson <eric@ionrock.org>]

At Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:55:19 -0800,
Erik Hetzner wrote:
> 
> At Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:27:08 -0600,
> Eric Larson wrote:
> > 
> > I started using offlineimap to sync an imap mailbox but the way
> > offlineimap gets the mail messages seems to put them in random order
> > in the wl sumary. I'm wondering if there is a good way to
> > automatically sort by the date when starting the summary mode. 
> > 
> > I did try writing a hook using wl-summary-sort-by-date and
> > wl-summary-sort but both seemed to accept an array of messages (at
> > least that was my theory). 
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> wl-summary-sort takes a prefix arg for reverse sort. All it does is
> prompt for a sort-by, then call wl-summary-rescan. Try calling:
> 
>   (wl-summary-rescan "date")
> 
> best, Erik
> 

That worked like a charm! Here is what I did in .wl:

  ;; sort the summary
  (defun my-wl-summary-sort-hook () 
    (wl-summary-rescan "date"))
   
  (add-hook 'wl-summary-prepared-hook 'my-wl-summary-sort-hook)

Thanks!!

Eric