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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: Emacs and long file names
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 22:44:56 -0400
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Simon Wright <simon@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.

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-- Stephe