Re: New buffer not showing up in Emacs Buffers Menubar

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

[resending because I mistakenly omitted the list address]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:32:57 +0000 Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>> > Is there always a requirement to instruct pop-to-buffer, view-buffer,
>> > display-buffer, switch-to-buffer and display-like commands so that a
>> > new buffer gets shown.
>>
>>
>> If you mean the buffer names being displayed in the Buffers menu, no, that
>> should be automatic for the most recent buffers up to buffers-menu-max-size.
>>
>> Steve Berman
>
> And the older ones would be removed from view ?  Hew does one set
> buffers-menu-max-size ?  With a setq as (setq buffers-menu-max-size new-size)
> or with a different command ?

It's a user option, so M-x customize-option (or customize-variable) but
setq is also fine (in your init file if you want to persist it).

Steve Berman