From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Prevent message from being truncated in mode line Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:14:37 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20220214101630.229a8dab@gauss> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21572"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.0 (2022-02-12) Cc: Help GNU Emacs To: Joe Riel Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 16:16:17 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1nJzYu-0005NB-MN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 16:16:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54210 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJzYt-00053w-1B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:16:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33164) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJzXw-00053T-2M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:15:16 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:44577) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJzXt-0006wu-Vg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 10:15:15 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.75.189.127]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000067F6B.00000000620BC35F.0000711E; Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:14:38 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Joe Riel , Help GNU Emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220214101630.229a8dab@gauss> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135964 Archived-At: * Joe Riel [2022-02-14 21:17]: > How can I prevent emacs from truncating the strings it displays in the mode line? > Am fairly sure it didn't use to do this. Is really annoying when using edebug > and am unable to see a complete string (the important part is being truncated). It is possible to customize mode line and thus see more. Please see description for variable `mode-line-format' Then you can make it so to see what you wish. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/