Re: [RP] [PATCH] max bar width

[Rupert Levene]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:02:13PM -0700, Shawn Betts wrote:
> Rupert Levene <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Fed up with ridiculously long website titles and buffer names making
> > your window list unusable? Here's a fix.
> > 
> > defbarmaxwidth -1 gives the current behaviour
> > defbarmaxwidth 0  makes the max bar width the screen width
> > defbarmaxwidth x  makes the max bar width x
> 
> Hi Rupert, thanks for the patch. I'll take a look at it. I just wanted
> to say that you may find:
> 
> defwinname class
> 
> to be of use. This way it just shows the window's application. You get
> nice and short names. On the downside, if you have 5 mozillas open
> you're not going to be able to easily see which one is at what page.

Cool, I hadn't noticed that =)

I also found that using the echo command with some external commands
made the bar too wide, and with a NE bargravity the bar was pushed off
the left-hand side of the screen. This isn't too helpful: you just get
to see the ends of the long lines. (I know, I could use cut to snip
the output, but it seems messy: how do you know where to cut for the
current font?).

Rupert