bug#64398: Buffer list

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 13:22:04 -0700
> Cc: Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>, 64398@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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?

If we make the number much larger, we should probably have a separate
default value for TTY frames, where I think small frame sizes are
still quite frequent.

Or maybe we should have the default computed dynamically based on the
actual frame size?