Re: Help on calling a function inside "ibuffer-formats"

[Michael Heerdegen]

doltes <doltes512@gmail.com> writes:

> My question is:
>
> 1. How can I make the =Name= column never be truncated? I know that I
>    can set this value to a big number (e.g. 100, 200, 300) but I'd
>    rather this value to be obtained through a function instead of
>    hardcoding its value.

You could just elide :elide, but I assume you don't want that.  Then it
seems to me that this

> 2. How can I call a function inside =ibuffer-formats= in order to
>    ensure that =MIN-SIZE= and =MAX-SIZE= is always set to the length
>    of the buffer with the longest name?

is not possible without redefining `ibuffer-format' on the fly all the
time.

Are you sure you would like the result?  You can always toggle with key
` to see the full buffer names.  I find that more convenient than having
a potentially huge first column width.

Regards,

Michael.