From: Gregor Zattler <grfz@gmx.de>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 38693@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38693: 27.0.50; tab-bar: automatic tab names should be shortened
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 21:15:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sglalrwm.fsf@len.workgroup> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sn5b6af.fsf@mail.linkov.net>
Hi Juri,
* Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> [2019-12-22; 01:36]:
>> Dear emacs developers, Juri, per default tab-bar uses buffer
>> names as tab labels. But these might be very looong:
>
> I've never seen that long buffer name before.
> This reminds Guinness Book record for the longest name :)
>
>> Please provide an option to dynamically shorten at least
>> automatic tab labels in order not to overflow the tab bar into
>> another line OR provide an option with sensible default for the
>> max length of automatic tab labels (e.g. 23 characters per tab
>> label would allow for at least 3 tabs on a 80 char terminal) OR
>> something to such effect.
>
> Maybe such a new option:
>
> (defcustom tab-bar-tab-name-max 23
>
> and using it on the default values of tab-bar-tab-name-current,
> tab-bar-tab-name-current-with-count, tab-bar-tab-name-all?
yes, this would be helpful for me.
Ciao,
--
Gregor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-23 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-20 17:48 bug#38693: 27.0.50; tab-bar: automatic tab names should be shortened Gregor Zattler
2019-12-21 23:36 ` Juri Linkov
2019-12-23 20:15 ` Gregor Zattler [this message]
2019-12-25 21:45 ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-20 0:36 ` Juri Linkov
2020-01-20 23:03 ` Juri Linkov
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