bug#64398: Buffer list

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2023 12:31:37 +0200
>>
>> This is not really a bug, rather a feature request.
>> The list of buffers, displayed by clicking on "Buffers" in the top bar,
>> displays only 10 buffers, forcing the user in too many cases to display
>> all of them to find the desired one. Would it be possible to double the
>> length of the list displayed?
>
> You can do it yourself by customizing the value of the variable
> buffers-menu-max-size to something greater than 10, its current
> default.

I see that the current default was chosen in 1993 (commit 4095411173af).
Perhaps 30 years is long enough that it's time to update it.  Screen
sizes are much larger these days, after all.

Are there any adverse effects associated with, say, setting it to 15 or
even doubling the number?