From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Heime via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#72309: propertized-buffer-identification with maximum width Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 12:51:06 +0000 Message-ID: References: <8eYtcka1bg4aOfbQVrzRShsG1EtNIu1JLO9XlRoQXZ4Q7yqojew5kxXcml4s-JdvwA7hgEdo_0-YEQf0zknb2wq9aS_-rgwEZB0ZT9y6QWM=@protonmail.com> <86o76j0xps.fsf@gnu.org> <86bk2i15f4.fsf@gnu.org> <861q3d1yzi.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Heime Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22070"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 72309@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 28 14:52:10 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sY3Ni-0005bU-JV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:52:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sY3NR-0007w9-Rx; Sun, 28 Jul 2024 08:51:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sY3NO-0007vy-NK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2024 08:51:50 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sY3NO-0003Hd-F0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2024 08:51:50 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=debbugs.gnu.org; s=debbugs-gnu-org; h=MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:To:Subject; bh=TYNYgdD1o+1jSRis2V39ko7V7vWqxAkpzFdGyvKahN0=; b=DRGW4uGnAR9PPl2J0VI6Blt0IysT/nEvSZBZpG0QYObKJiySJH32a5YgzP/ME1lSQCvVYAyJd8n1x+hCQPTzHfmkJaI8wSY1uzYlm5X7bIpnvy8tZGxloClH6Oz042OZai9BpEuutpOza8qaWGI/tE8nUmbBNlQ70e6gccaym6WVrwq0kBTYddjAj4FZzYnFIQt8GRhLVK2mOwaozDDJanw03EPf2r1RvzkrPLS5BqUTjOTzs9DrJlbX+2IJRwPMfdaP9EfHMvVXYIkdEaPkUDiDIl4GiiXnE76MnThCbUkGvwNSKX1Sqy6jdE/Ug4IvFMj3p6d8lo1AFwaIUMbptg==; Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1sY3NZ-0007to-Oe for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2024 08:52:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Heime Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 12:52:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 72309 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 72309-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B72309.172217109330326 (code B ref 72309); Sun, 28 Jul 2024 12:52:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 72309) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Jul 2024 12:51:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42830 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1sY3N6-0007t4-Kc for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2024 08:51:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-43167.protonmail.ch ([185.70.43.167]:22223) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1sY3N4-0007sq-Cl for 72309@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2024 08:51:31 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1722171072; x=1722430272; bh=lOpV2xy0BIOOUsohWHjLS8quPfj2DaRV0c3nUIjxA9k=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID: Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=AVIDXE9sNRVSVpP6B4dBNA5P2jnzGGNzGPs8IRHCpWWxq7wc0rQ1+YuNdBHZQLtD1 V+WWFVlBUKbFhlgpaI+Pb328uf8ayxVIHidMhDI+Vgf1FBh0tYMRwH2lY2kAKExtuz z4n9NyIN0X7Ax+mIYfQd/Dzh11d/D2FrXTeO0W5qA2qT6RRzyhrZQ7XIz77D3thM37 rzhsoPN9zdx2A1/V5ns9eZFkayA47uGZ/iyy+xI3FVHtShXJ+o+RZ+R0Rfu2DCVkqh wYg/taQtBolDR7zXK9R8WnpGFxd5ZdbAakYGWvjDMPj6n1m4yuIstxvv1/wauob8ZI t5Ya4HYmRKtAQ== In-Reply-To: <861q3d1yzi.fsf@gnu.org> Feedback-ID: 57735886:user:proton X-Pm-Message-ID: 8eda25ee8620e7f68da2f5349d10cad1c687df79 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:289470 Archived-At: Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Monday, July 29th, 2024 at 12:29 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 12:18:32 +0000 > > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org, 72309@debbugs.gnu.org > >=20 > > > > > What is the big problem of showing how to implement this, buffer = name > > > > > with truncation ellipses using mode-line-buffer-identification ? > > > >=20 > > > > We don't have people here whose job is to write code for others. Th= is > > > > is a volunteer-based project, where people help you with ideas, but > > > > the actual job of writing and debugging the code is yours. > > > >=20 > > > > So please take the ideas, read the documentation, and work on the > > > > implementation you want. If you have questions about the > > > > implementation, please ask them on help-gnu-emacs, which is where > > > > user-level help should be sought. > >=20 > > The implementations do not work. > >=20 > > For instance, using > >=20 > > (name (buffer-name)) > >=20 > > or with > >=20 > > (buffer-name (window-buffer)) > >=20 > > See > >=20 > > (setq-default mode-line-buffer-identification > > (propertized-buffer-identification > > (format " %s " > > (let ( (name (buffer-name)) ) > > (if (> (length name) wmax) > > (concat (substring name 0 (- wmax 3)) "...") > > name))))) ) > >=20 > > And neither does this > >=20 > > (let* ( (bfname (buffer-name (window-buffer))) > > (tkname (if (> (length bfname) wmax) > > (truncate-string-to-width bfname wmax nil nil "...") > > bfname))) > > (propertized-buffer-identification (format " %s " tkname)))) > >=20 > > So there is no option other than using %b, where one has no control abo= ut > > how it gets displayed. >=20 >=20 > Your conclusions are wrong. If I put a question on emacs help, would you answer it in a way that gets things to work ?