From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5054: 23.1.50; buffer-menu truncated fields Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 09:40:43 -0800 Message-ID: <906B8B9DB9F7438AB5856A13717F7FFF@us.oracle.com> References: <4B3F58A5.6080701@gmx.at> <87ljgggfff.fsf@jidanni.org> <4B41BF95.2030106@gmx.at> Reply-To: Drew Adams , 5054@debbugs.gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262629290 15556 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2010 18:21:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 18:21:30 +0000 (UTC) To: "'martin rudalics'" , <5054@debbugs.gnu.org>, Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 04 19:21:22 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NRrYH-0007rS-Gi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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That would be reasonable I think. Juri, what do you think? Why complicate things so much? If users knowing about this option is truly a problem, then just mention the option in `C-h m'. It also wouldn't be a bad idea, IMO, to change the default binding of `C-x C-b' from `list-buffers' to `buffer-menu'. (I do that in my .emacs.) > > Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width is a variable defined in > > `buff-menu.el'. Its value is 26 > > > > Documentation: > > How wide to jointly make the buffer name and size columns. > > > > But I want to use the same .emacs file with many different terminal > > sizes. Why can't there be a setting 'maximum or > > 'current-window-width or something? FWIW, the code from buff-menu+.el could be integrated. It lets you change the value of option `Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width' incrementally, on the fly, using keys `+' and `-'. When limited window space makes it impossible to see everything, you control how much of which fields you see. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BufferMenuPlus