Re: Sorting group list.

On 02/15/12 at 07:12pm, Urs Janßen wrote:
> 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.
> 
I had no idea you could do that thanks. Will the sort stick if/when newsrc is
updated?

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

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//Christian Dysthe

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