Tassilo Horn <heimdall@uni-koblenz.de> writes:

> If the buffer name is a littlebit longer, it doesn't fit on my
> screen anymore.

(setq mode-line-format '((-18 "%b")))

will print the current buffer name in the mode line, truncating it to
18 chars (for example).

Hope it helps.

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