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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 64398@debbugs.gnu.org, Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#64398: Buffer list
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 13:22:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=vAbNJSxMC6c-3ETHyYCrCjp2DZJGucAR1Naer3iQHhg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <833527rjwm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:44:09 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2023 12:31:37 +0200
>>
>> This is not really a bug, rather a feature request.
>> The list of buffers, displayed by clicking on "Buffers" in the top bar,
>> displays only 10 buffers, forcing the user in too many cases to display
>> all of them to find the desired one. Would it be possible to double the
>> length of the list displayed?
>
> You can do it yourself by customizing the value of the variable
> buffers-menu-max-size to something greater than 10, its current
> default.

I see that the current default was chosen in 1993 (commit 4095411173af).
Perhaps 30 years is long enough that it's time to update it.  Screen
sizes are much larger these days, after all.

Are there any adverse effects associated with, say, setting it to 15 or
even doubling the number?





  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-04 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-01 10:31 bug#64398: Buffer list Angelo Borsotti
2023-07-01 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-04 20:22   ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2023-09-05  2:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-05 21:46       ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-06 11:25         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-06 11:54           ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-06 12:39             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-30 23:09               ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-05  7:21             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-05  8:10               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-05 12:54                 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-10-05 16:05                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-05 18:19                     ` Stefan Kangas

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