Re: Emacs and long file names

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> writes:

> On May 24, 7:44 pm, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
> wrote:
>> Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> writes:
>> > I hadn't come across electric-buffer-list before; I use
>> > mouse-buffer-menu, bound (not by me) to C-down-mouse-1.
>>
>> Ah; invoke electric-buffer-list.
>>
>> A little poking with the elisp debugger, and I found this variable:
>>
>> Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width is a variable defined in `buff-menu.el'.
>> Its value is 26
>>
>> Documentation:
>> How wide to jointly make the buffer name and size columns.
>>
>> You can customize this variable.
>
> Thanks, that's very helpful.  

You're welcome.

> I'll also think about your suggestion to allow myself a wider screen.
> I think my reluctance has been a throwback to the old days when a lot
> of printouts 

"printout"? what's a "printout"? :). Save a tree, and the fossil fuel
needed to transport it, and/or the harsh chemicals used to recycle it.
Electrons are recyclable; most other stuff really isn't.

> were only allowed 80 columns, which is itself a throwback to the
> number of characters on a Hollerith card. Here it's 2010 and my life
> still revolves around Hollerith cards. Sigh....... (Then again, I'm
> using a language that refuses to use square or curly brackets or some
> other special characters in its syntax because they weren't available
> on old punch-card machines.)

That's not the _only_ reason, but it is part of it.

> On the other hand, I probably won't be doing things Simon's way.  I
> kind of like being able to keep my hands in one place, rather than
> having to move them to use some sort of rodent-like attachment.  

"rodent-like attachment"; that's perfect :).

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