Re: Long buffer names in buffer menu [Emacs 22.1 on w32]

[despen]

"B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:

> Adam Beneschan wrote:
>> On Oct 21, 9:25 am, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> So there is some confusion as to what you are using. Your initial mail 
>>> spoke of
>>> buff-menu.el, but it also spoke about "electric" buffer list. Those are two
>>> different things.
>> 
>> Actually, my initial post didn't mention any .el files.  Just for the
>> record....
>> 
>>                         -- Adam
....
>   (setq truncate-lines t)

Okay, so this sort of works:

(add-hook 'electric-buffer-menu-mode-hook 
          '(lambda ()
             (setq truncate-lines nil)))

The long names are shown continued on the next line.
The only problem is that cursor movement moves through
the extended file name.  Not a big problem.