Please truncate long file/dir name in right click menu

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Please truncate long file/dir name in right click menu

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Right clicking on a long file or dir name will sometimes span the menu almost half of the size of screen width. This is always one of the most uncomfortable things for me when using Total Commander, particular when I'm on netbook where the screen estate is very limited.

I think this feature is relatively simple to implement. So I'd really appreciate if this could be slipped into v8. It would really make my life lot easier as netbook user
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It is already truncated, if the name is longer than 80 characters, only the first 80 characters shown followed by 3 dots.
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80 char is unreasonably long for a menu item name IMO. Now that explains why right clicking in TC gives me a menu with enormous width that eats up almost entire space on screen

but it's good to know that the feature is already there

What we only need now is a hidden option to set a custom length at which to start truncating the file/dir name
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KucingLapar wrote:What we only need now is a hidden option to set a custom length at which to start truncating the file/dir name
We have one for breadcrumb menu BreadCrumbMaxWidth but not for context menu.
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Re: Please Truncate long file/dir name in right click menu

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KucingLapar wrote:...a long file or dir name will sometimes span the menu almost half of the size of screen width. ...
Maybe this plugin can help you:
http://lefteous.totalcmd.net/tc/archives/nicepaths/nicepaths_1.00.zip

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NicePaths can be used to increase the readability of paths in search results.
Nope, we are talking about explorer's right click menu here.

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KucingLapar wrote:
NicePaths can be used to increase the readability of paths in search results.
Nope, we are talking about explorer's right click menu here.

Image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2371091/ss/2012-04-22_20-42-25.jpg
Yes, but what are you doing after the right click?

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