Variable: gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function

gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function is a customizable variable defined in gnus-sum.el.gz.

Value

gnus-gather-threads-by-subject

Documentation

Function used for gathering loose threads.

There are two pre-defined functions: gnus-gather-threads-by-subject, which only takes Subjects into consideration; and gnus-gather-threads-by-references, which compared the References headers of the articles to find matches.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.32.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el.gz
(defcustom gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function
  #'gnus-gather-threads-by-subject
  "Function used for gathering loose threads.
There are two pre-defined functions: `gnus-gather-threads-by-subject',
which only takes Subjects into consideration; and
`gnus-gather-threads-by-references', which compared the References
headers of the articles to find matches."
  :group 'gnus-thread
  :type '(radio (function-item gnus-gather-threads-by-subject)
		(function-item gnus-gather-threads-by-references)
		(function :tag "other")))