I am working with rather longish file names and when viewing the buffer list, the width of the Buffer
column is too short for my purposes.
How can I increase that width (at the expense of, say, the width of the Mode
or the File
columns).
Width I am trying to increase marked with yellow in the screenshot below:
In Emacs 24.3 and later, this is controlled by the variable Buffer-menu-name-width
, which defaults to 19 on my system. Something like
(setq Buffer-menu-name-width 40)
should help. Alternatively, you can use something like M-x customize-variable
to change it.
In older Emacs versions, Buffer-menu-buffer+size-width
should be modified instead. Thanks to the OP for his edit pointing this out.
It looks like the File column fills up whatever space is left over, so this change should take space away from it. If you prefer to take space from the Mode column, you could also modify the Buffer-menu-mode-width
variable to something smaller.
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