skeeto / elfeed

An Emacs web feeds client
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Improve reading of feeds with story arcs #54

Open dustinpaluch opened 10 years ago

dustinpaluch commented 10 years ago

Since the r, b, u, and RET hotkeys move the point to the next line, It's most efficient to start with your point on the first entry and work downwards. This leads to reading the most recent posts first, which is undesirable when reading through a feed for something like a webcomic with a story arc. You wouldn't start reading a comic book from back to front, would you?

To accommodate this use-case, we could add the option of sorting search results by date, ascending/descending. Although, I suspect a much easier solution would be to let the user decide which way the point moves after pressing one of the hotkeys, so I can start with my point at the bottom.

Fuco1 commented 10 years ago

You can go to the bottom and hit p instead of n.

KrzysiekJ commented 5 years ago

There exists a customizable variable elfeed-sort-order (and a newer elfeed-search-sort-function).