Re: Interactive guide for new users

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 12.09.2020 13:58, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > 11. (setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'forward uniquify-min-dir-content 1024)
> > > Why? what's wrong with the defaults here?
> > This has been discussed earlier in another thread, but the current
> > defaults (uniquify-buffer-name-style set to post-forward-angle-brackets)
> > is puzzling to most users, to say the least.  A complete file name is what
> > most users would expect here.
> A complete file name takes too much of the screen space on the mode
> line, IMO.  You'd need to make the font used by the mode-line face to
> be much smaller, and even then it will steal too much space.

This value of uniquify-buffer-name-style has been a part of every major 
"starter kit" for quite some time:

https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude/blob/dd9b01a991c9599842ba88e52fe6ae8627f4a782/core/prelude-editor.el#L105

https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/blob/a2a5038b970df20ec512447b7bbbe96fa2446851/core/core-ui.el#L166

https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/better-defaults/tree/master/better-defaults.el#L63

So we can say for sure that people find it comfortable enough.