On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM Daniel Mendler wrote: > Stéphane Marks writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM Daniel Mendler > > wrote: > > > >> Stéphane Marks writes: > >> > >> > What if, instead, each tab's content would shrink to fit? This is > >> > closer to how web browsers fit tabs. There are browser extensions that > >> > offer multiple lines or scroll left/right, but I find those more > >> > annoying since I can't see them all. > >> > >> Yes, this would be great, as long as each tab bar field would shrink, > >> not only the tabs themselves at the very left. For me the overflow > >> happens not only because I have too many tabs but because my system bar > >> gets too long. > >> > >> However I suspect that such shrinking behavior is harder to implement > >> nicely, in contrast to simple truncation. > >> > > > > Reading through tab-bar for a feature I don't use, but maybe I should, is > > `tab-bar-auto-width` and its controls `tab-bar-auto-width-max` and > > `tab-bar-auto-width-min` so perhaps this feature already exists. > > I see. This is exactly the feature which does not help for my use case, > since it only resizes the tabs and not all the other tab fields, which I > would like to truncate. > > I would like to see an option `tab-bar-truncate' or `tab-line-truncate' > which simply prevent line wrapping, similar to the buffer variable > `truncate-lines'. > Perhaps customizing `tab-bar-auto-width-faces` and/or `tab-bar-auto-width-functions` would allow relaxing field limits to your taste.