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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Prevent message from being truncated in mode line
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:14:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YgvDXTvtT2+rGNIR@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220214101630.229a8dab@gauss>

* Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com> [2022-02-14 21:17]:
> How can I prevent emacs from truncating the strings it displays in the mode line?
> Am fairly sure it didn't use to do this.  Is really annoying when using edebug
> and am unable to see a complete string (the important part is being truncated).

It is possible to customize mode line and thus see more.

Please see description for variable `mode-line-format'

Then you can make it so to see what you wish.

-- 
Jean

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-15 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-14 18:16 Prevent message from being truncated Joe Riel
2022-02-14 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-15 15:14 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2022-02-16  1:38   ` Prevent message from being truncated in mode line Joe Riel

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