Re: Automatic linking to a mhonarc archive

[Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison@Sun.COM>]

Earl Hood wrote:

> > What might be more generally useful is a way of overriding the 'sort by
> > subject' function - for example in my case I could look in the subject for a
> > bugid, so that mails would sort as I require even if the bugid wasn't the
> > first word in the subject.
> 
> The current code base is not abstracted well enough to make this
> clean.  It would require knowing some internals.  Also, and maybe
> more important, is the sorting would be slow.  You'd probably have to
> pre-extract bug id information and sort on that to avoid extracting
> the bug id everytime a key comparison is done.  If you look at the
> sort_messages() routine in mhutil.pl, you will see that I do some
> pre-processing before the actual sort for subject- and author-based
> sorting to minimize the comparison computation during the sort.

Yes, a regexp evaluation per sort comparison would be kinda costly.

> A potential hack is to actual modify the subject as before, but instead
> of trying to put a hyperlink in it, you prefix it with the relevant
> bug id.  This way, if you do a subject sort, you may get the kind
> of grouping you desire.

Yeah, I wondered if that might work.  This is all *such* fun :-)

Thanks once again,

-- 
Alan Burlison
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