From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Long buffer names in buffer menu Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256098787 21030 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2009 04:19:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:19:47 +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 06:19:38 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 1N0Sfb-0001YN-JT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:19:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35616 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N0Sfa-0004BY-RO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:19:30 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!2g2000prl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1256061061 15966 127.0.0.1 (20 Oct 2009 17:51:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:51:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 2g2000prl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174022 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:18:12 -0400 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:69118 Archived-At: 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.) Thanks for any help you can provide. -- thanks, Adam