From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Long buffer names in buffer menu Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:20:25 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256079471 12436 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2009 22:57:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:57:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 21 00:57:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N0NPa-0008RP-3L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:42:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39583 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N0NPZ-00046j-Kh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:42:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+sssIcBjYZVKYniMgN11cvm+7unM4wS7khPzLFEkwlMzvqugGlE++vRGR81NoPMEgmD8RmknohJp+AizbW9qcKkjh15kLowK7S0atAAbt32WYy2mCtqyTusOW/AjS8qnRsfBgARd+e9A== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:20:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19cdcKVgDUgUEhaeXyLPs55JkCB63mTAzZNbNCzWt7k9w== Cancel-Lock: sha1:CIc+BdlkZ8rVNZLbPaDG938BMgI= sha1:qvRkGe080Vgxcc4Gdhm7Iiajfdc= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174029 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69109 Archived-At: Adam Beneschan writes: > Hi, > > I've just started using EMACS 22 on Ubuntu (previously was using 20 on > another system), and I've run into a frustrating problem... > > When I bring up the electric buffer list, long file names are > truncated (with : at the end of the name). This is a problem for me > since I'm used to using long source file names, and I sometimes work > with multiple files whose names are different only after the point > where EMACS truncates them. So if I'm working with two or more such > files, the names appear the same in the electric buffer list and I > don't know which one to select. I can't find any function that would > display the full, untruncated buffer name somewhere while remanining > in the buffer list so that I can pick the correct one. Is there a > function like that, or could one be written simply? (I'm pretty > experienced at writing my own Lisp functions, so if someone has some > code for something like this I could get it working.) I find if I use the arrow key to move into the truncated part of the line, the buffer list shifts over. On the other had, ^e doesn't work in the buffer list. Perhaps you could add a binding for that. If the really long names include a bunch of directories, you might try making symbolic links out of your home directory to the places where your files are. Otherwise, I'd say, forget the really long names. You are just starting to see the problems they will cause.