Helm entries run off right edge

Question

Using my prelude-based emacs install full-screen on my laptop, I normally have 2 vertical windows side-by-side. If I invoke helm-mini, it normally takes up half of one vertical window, so about a quarter of my laptop screen. However when it's showing the full path of recent files, these trail off the right edge of the helm window, hiding the useful file name:

I know I can hit C-t a few times to move the helm window around, and hopefully get a winder window that can hopefully show the file name, but that's cumbersome.

Is there a setting or feature that will help here? Maybe truncating the left side of the line, not the right? Or wrapping the line around? Or something else?

Answer 1

To wrap the entries in Helm buffer instead of truncating them, add function to helm-after-initialize-hook:

(add-hook 'helm-after-initialize-hook (lambda ()
                                        (with-helm-buffer
                                          (visual-line-mode))))

Alternatively, you can use helm-buffers-list and add this setting: (setq ido-use-virtual-buffers t) to enable visited files to be displayed in helm-buffers-list. Choose one depends one whether you want to see the full paths or not.

Answer 2

Take a note that for now. You can use:

• C-c > (helm-toggle-truncate-line) to truncate lines
• and C-] (helm-ff-run-toggle-basename) to toggle the list to the basename only