GNU bug report logs - #5054
23.1.50; buffer-menu truncated fields

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:10:05 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 7271

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: 5054 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#5054: 23.1.50; buffer-menu truncated fields
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:17:26 +0100

>> Does `Man-width' trigger a refit when the window gets resized?
>
> Do you think it should?  Maybe.  So when a window is split horizontally,
> it would refit.  But this requires re-running the man command with the
> new value of the environment variable COLUMNS.

It probably should refit at least when run in a standalone frame and the
user maximizes the frame or sizes it back to normal.

> I think that ruler-mode has a good UI where it's easy to see
> the position of the handle for dragging.

The header line of ruler-mode looks good indeed.  Remains the question
whether we want a generic interface, so `list-processes' can use it as
well, and maybe also `dired', the various message modes, file managers,
table headers ...

martin
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