From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Long file names in Dired Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:10:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87a8xyo2zj.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429830675 23244 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2015 23:11:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:11:15 +0000 (UTC) To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 24 01:11:09 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YlQGw-0005Sk-3R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:11:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42327 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlQGv-0005C6-8K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:11:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33883) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlQGW-0005C0-9G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:10:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlQGS-0000AT-4r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:55918) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlQGR-0000AG-Tv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:10:36 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 783896F2004 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:10:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TLvbw7S6aRnQ for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:10:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.146]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B71E26F2003 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:10:31 +0200 (CEST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103967 Archived-At: Hi all, so I have some really, really long filenames (say, more than 70 characters), and I'd like to shorten them so they don't spill to the next line in Dired. I can toggle-truncate-lines, of course, but then I don't see the extension, and I'd prefer to truncate the part /before/ the extension. Is there any Dired hack enabling this? If not, where i should tinker to achieve that? Would making some parts of the text invisible be a good way to do that? If yes, is there any Dired hook I could use for that? BTW, the /reason/ I have long filenames is that I have a bunch of pdfs with scientific articles, and I decided that putting the author names, publication year and a ttile (at least shortened) into the filename might be a good idea so that I don't get lost. An alternative would be e.g. an Org-mode based database with links to files, but then relocating them would be non-trivial. TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University