GNU bug report logs - #72309
propertized-buffer-identification with maximum width

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Heime <heimeborgia <at> protonmail.com>
Cc: 72309 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72309: propertized-buffer-identification with maximum width
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 16:29:51 +0300

> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 13:08:31 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia <at> protonmail.com>
> Cc: 72309 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Sunday, July 28th, 2024 at 1:00 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, but the (WIDTH something) construct is not for truncating long
> > names, it's for ensuring the string produced by "something" doesn't
> > take too many columns. So you are using this for a wrong purpose. If
> > you want to truncate a buffer's name, use truncate-string-to-width
> > instead, which is also capable of showing the ellipsis at the end.
> 
> I do not know how to access the buffer name and apply truncate-string-to-width
> when setting mode-line-buffer-identification on propertized-buffer-identification.

Use :eval.

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