David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> writes:

> On Wednesday, 2018-10-17 at 23:27:45 +01, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
>
>> Couldn't we reuse url-truncate-url-for-viewing, which tries to be smart
>> about where it places the ellipsis, for this?  I think the existing code
>> can also be cleaned up a little:
>
> I didn't know about url-truncate-url-for-viewing, no other reason.
>
> I'd be happy with your change, but note that it will always truncate
> URLs that are wider than the current frame - there is no way to have no
> truncation take place.
>
> If a user is most familiar with something like ffap to open URLs then
> this is unfortunate - ffap doesn't see the full URL in the buffer.

Sorry, that was an oversight.  Here's how the last patch can be patched
to support the default of no truncation: