From: despen@verizon.net
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Long buffer names in buffer menu [Emacs 22.1 on w32]
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:05:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ic4oppob3s.fsf@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2b031530-c192-4ead-bcf8-b1c70a81dbed@y10g2000prg.googlegroups.com
Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> writes:
> On Oct 21, 7:32 pm, des...@verizon.net wrote:
>> "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Adam Beneschan wrote:
>> >> On Oct 21, 9:25 am, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> >>> So there is some confusion as to what you are using. Your initial mail spoke of
>> >>> buff-menu.el, but it also spoke about "electric" buffer list. Those are two
>> >>> different things.
>>
>> >> Actually, my initial post didn't mention any .el files. Just for the
>> >> record....
>>
>> >> -- Adam
>> ....
>> > (setq truncate-lines t)
>>
>> Okay, so this sort of works:
>>
>> (add-hook 'electric-buffer-menu-mode-hook
>> '(lambda ()
>> (setq truncate-lines nil)))
>>
>> The long names are shown continued on the next line.
>> The only problem is that cursor movement moves through
>> the extended file name. Not a big problem.
>
> OK, thanks. I think that will work as a temporary workaround.
How are your eyes?
You could try setting a face in the buffer list and
using a smaller font.
Or a proportional font on the file name.
The WIKI explains how to font lock the electric buffer list.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-24 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-20 17:51 Long buffer names in buffer menu Adam Beneschan
2009-10-20 21:52 ` B. T. Raven
2009-10-20 22:58 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-21 15:38 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-10-21 16:25 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-21 16:33 ` despen
[not found] ` <mailman.9220.1256142396.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-21 16:39 ` despen
2009-10-21 19:52 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-10-22 1:39 ` Long buffer names in buffer menu [Emacs 22.1 on w32] B. T. Raven
2009-10-22 2:32 ` despen
2009-10-22 6:50 ` Andreas Politz
2009-10-23 22:53 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-10-24 1:05 ` despen [this message]
2009-10-20 22:20 ` Long buffer names in buffer menu despen
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