Re: Sorting group list.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 06:59:09AM -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> One feature I've never really spent time on finding out how works in
> sorting the list of groups. When I press '.' the highlighted group is
> moved one down. But when I press it again nothing happens. How does the
> sort function work? My goal is to have the most active groups on top of
> the list.

the '.' just sorts the list of displayed groups alphabetically for this
session. if you like to make such sorting session persistent sort you
newsrc manually[1] (while tin is NOT running) or use 'm'ove group.

[1] sort -n ~/.newsrc > ~/.newsrc.sort && mv ~/.newsrc.sort ~/.newsrc

urs
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