Would it be better to include sorting options in the query string?
Then it could just be stored in the saved search, and used outside
saved searches.

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> These (fairly unpolished) patches add support for defining the sort order
> for each saved search individually. The approach is very low-tech and
> simple; providing a separate alist which maps saved search names with sort
> order for the saved searches that should have a sort order overriding the
> default notmuch-search-oldest-first.
>
> Having this embedded directly in notmuch-saved-searches would be nicer, but
> also much more complicated due to backwards compatibility issues. I presume
> the diffstat would be at least an order of magnitude bigger.
>
> The patches may not be up to notmuch standards, but I'm providing them
> anyway should anyone find them useful.
>
> BR,
> Jani.
>
>
> Jani Nikula (2):
>   emacs: store sort order in the widgets in notmuch-hello
>   emacs: add support for defining custom sort order for saved searches
>
>  emacs/notmuch-hello.el |   10 +++++++---
>  emacs/notmuch-lib.el   |    9 +++++++++
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
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