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On 5/29/23, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > By contrast, the default mode line shows the _buffer_ name, not the > _file_ name. If you want to see the file name, you need to customize > mode-line-buffer-identification to show that; by default it uses %b, > which shows the buffer name. I suspect that this is how it used to i tried f and it showd a full path name. i'm not sure if a full path name is always needed? can a basename suffice? i do seem to recall the truename showing there but who knows. > work for you in previous versions of Emacs, since the code which shows > the buffer identification on the mode line hasn't changed in decades. > > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com