Re: Changes to emacs/lisp/buff-menu.el,v

[Juri Linkov]

>>> ... and surely any environmental tests in the initializer of a dumped
>>> variable are obviously wrong anyway...
>> And these days, the same Emacs instance can be accessed simultaneously
>> from displays with different capabilities; so bad form all round really. ;)
>
> Yup... undone.  This said, nowadays, I'd really like to just always
> use "…".

Maybe a function is better:

(defun Buffer-menu-short-ellipsis ()
 (if (char-displayable-p ?…) "…" ":"))

We already do such customization-by-function-redefinition
e.g. in `help-default-arg-highlight'.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/