From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>, 30692@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30692: list-buffers has hardwired 80 character width from the 80's
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 11:08:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2imdu6cwx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn826d5c.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 07 Aug 2020 11:03:43 +0200")
>>>>> On Fri, 07 Aug 2020 11:03:43 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
>> Ah, I see. Yes, that's pretty annoying. It should expand the buffer
>> column size based on the window width.
Lars> To recap: Even when the window is very wide, `C-x b' renders with
Lars> Buffer-menu-name-width 19
Lars> I propose to allow nil as a value here (and default Emacs to it), and
Lars> nil would then mean "compute based on window width". The computation
Lars> would end up with 19 as the result if the window is 80 characters long,
Lars> but progressively make it longer if the window is wider (according to
Lars> some curve), but never make it longer than actual buffer names displayed.
Lars> Does this sound reasonable to everybody?
Better. This sounds like "why the hell aren't we doing this already".
+1 from me
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-07 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-03 23:12 bug#30692: list-buffers has hardwired 80 character width from the 80's 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2018-03-04 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-05 0:23 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2018-03-05 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-14 19:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-15 10:35 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2018-04-15 12:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-07 9:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-07 9:08 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-08-07 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-07 11:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-07 12:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-07 12:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-07 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-08 9:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-08 9:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-08 10:13 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-08-08 10:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-08 10:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-08 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-08 10:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-08 10:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-08 10:37 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-08-08 11:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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