From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:54:59 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: gnus-thread-ignore-subject doc string clarification
X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.0.90~1402
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=09879c82b268916aefff8b120ed39e25d3ea47cc;p=emacs.git

gnus-thread-ignore-subject doc string clarification

* lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el (gnus-thread-ignore-subject): Document
that when not ignoring subjects, sorting will not happen as
expected (bug#35513).
---

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
index 9d6f4568274..f83977ac5b8 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el
@@ -345,9 +345,15 @@ If threads are hidden, you have to run the command
   :type 'boolean)
 
 (defcustom gnus-thread-ignore-subject t
-  "If non-nil, which is the default, ignore subjects and do all threading based on the Reference header.
+  "If non-nil, ignore subjects when creating threads.
+
 If nil, articles that have different subjects from their parents will
-start separate threads."
+start separate threads.
+
+Threads that are split because the subject changes will still be
+sorted as if they were part of the same thread, and
+`gnus-thread-sort-functions' will not apply to these split
+threads."
   :group 'gnus-thread
   :type 'boolean)