From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help on calling a function inside "ibuffer-formats" Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:53:02 +0100 Message-ID: <87pn1qf0vl.fsf@web.de> References: <87bldbjphu.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19225"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:mK+95M69QeONiCt2Ydmb8oN6tK8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 27 23:54:05 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l4thM-0004ue-S0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:54:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36760 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4thL-0002YN-Tw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:54:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59002) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4tgY-0002YD-95 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:53:14 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:42780) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l4tgV-0002m1-BZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:53:12 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l4tgR-0003lT-7f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:53:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127393 Archived-At: doltes 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.