Re: Long buffer names in buffer menu [Emacs 22.1 on w32]

[Andreas Politz]

despen@verizon.net writes:

> "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
>
>> Adam Beneschan wrote:
>>> On Oct 21, 9:25 am, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> 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.


You could try to flet-bind `abbreviate-file-name' around
`electric-buffer-list' and shorten the filename in which ever way you
like.

-ap