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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help on calling a function inside "ibuffer-formats"
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:53:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn1qf0vl.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bldbjphu.fsf@gmail.com

doltes <doltes512@gmail.com> writes:

> My question is:
>
> 1. How can I make the =Name= column never be truncated? I know that I
>    can set this value to a big number (e.g. 100, 200, 300) but I'd
>    rather this value to be obtained through a function instead of
>    hardcoding its value.

You could just elide :elide, but I assume you don't want that.  Then it
seems to me that this

> 2. How can I call a function inside =ibuffer-formats= in order to
>    ensure that =MIN-SIZE= and =MAX-SIZE= is always set to the length
>    of the buffer with the longest name?

is not possible without redefining `ibuffer-format' on the fly all the
time.

Are you sure you would like the result?  You can always toggle with key
` to see the full buffer names.  I find that more convenient than having
a potentially huge first column width.

Regards,

Michael.




  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-27 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-26 22:35 Help on calling a function inside "ibuffer-formats" doltes
2021-01-27 22:53 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2021-01-28 13:36   ` doltes

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