From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Long buffer names in buffer menu [Emacs 22.1 on w32] Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:05:11 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <80a2c2b9-6a41-4584-8ada-9d37c4577a6e@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <67f25ccb-004b-49c5-87d1-13b120df6f94@t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <2b031530-c192-4ead-bcf8-b1c70a81dbed@y10g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256348454 315 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2009 01:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:40:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 24 03:40:48 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 1N1Vcc-0003R2-LQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:40:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55893 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N1Vcb-00008H-W3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:40:46 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.mixmin.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1+PuEcpHVKR64Mvk8oSDf/1d8s+utV1r/NHZGuX7mJ++/ElIvGJGgZiq5zBZqIBqPqV9uTFnB94v+69ysp9DFaYBNUe7+fjdRkJKze2fy4L35zwWE9r1s4DJLzK+04kCp/gbgRV6x9+8j1sLVJFYn27 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:05:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18mJcOgMM8lu/nuzcZgGSkQ+qAGYLUXtPcZwp+/lDC06Q== Cancel-Lock: sha1:r/rWNonOwNP0hC0VYvqfkq7t3FY= sha1:Zlr7M7jPDcZPsYOweHW4PDK+94c= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174111 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:69193 Archived-At: Adam Beneschan writes: > On Oct 21, 7:32 pm, des...@verizon.net wrote: >> "B. T. Raven" writes: >> >> >> >> > Adam Beneschan wrote: >> >> On Oct 21, 9:25 am, "Drew Adams" wrote: >> >> >>> So there is some confusion as to what you are using. Your initial mail spoke of >> >>> buff-menu.el, but it also spoke about "electric" buffer list. Those are two >> >>> different things. >> >> >> Actually, my initial post didn't mention any .el files.  Just for the >> >> record.... >> >> >>                         -- Adam >> .... >> >   (setq truncate-lines t) >> >> Okay, so this sort of works: >> >> (add-hook 'electric-buffer-menu-mode-hook >>           '(lambda () >>              (setq truncate-lines nil))) >> >> The long names are shown continued on the next line. >> The only problem is that cursor movement moves through >> the extended file name.  Not a big problem. > > OK, thanks. I think that will work as a temporary workaround. How are your eyes? You could try setting a face in the buffer list and using a smaller font. Or a proportional font on the file name. The WIKI explains how to font lock the electric buffer list.