sort taglist in get_tags()

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/alot/db.py b/alot/db.py
index ffa6385c..74c2f405 100644
--- a/alot/db.py
+++ b/alot/db.py
@@ -197,7 +197,9 @@ class Thread:
 
     def get_tags(self):
         """returns tags attached to this thread as list of strings"""
-        return list(self._tags)
+        l = list(self._tags)
+        l.sort()
+        return l
 
     def add_tags(self, tags, sync_maildir_flags=False):
         """adds tags to all messages in this thread
diff --git a/alot/message.py b/alot/message.py
index b1ea7484..ca4c5a83 100644
--- a/alot/message.py
+++ b/alot/message.py
@@ -100,7 +100,9 @@ class Message:
 
     def get_tags(self):
         """returns tags attached to this message as list of strings"""
-        return list(self._tags)
+        l = list(self._tags)
+        l.sort()
+        return l
 
     def get_thread(self):
         """returns the thread this msg belongs to as alot.db.Thread object"""
diff --git a/alot/widgets.py b/alot/widgets.py
index 20580ffa..9854e44d 100644
--- a/alot/widgets.py
+++ b/alot/widgets.py
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ class ThreadlineWidget(urwid.AttrMap):
         cols.append(('fixed', len(mailcountstring), self.mailcount_w))
 
         tags = self.thread.get_tags()
+        tags.sort()
         for tag in tags:
             tw = TagWidget(tag)
             self.tag_widgets.append(tw)