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menu behavior for large menu panes is suboptimal.

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From: Bill Sommerfeld
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 17:50
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In GNU Emacs 19.27.6 (hppa1.1-hp-hpux9shr, X toolkit) of Wed Sep 21 1994 on snarfblatt

Start emacs on an X window and move the window to the upper left
corner of the screen.

Create a second frame:

	C-x 5 2	

Now, edit a file with a very long file name:

	C-x C-f C-u 2 0 0 x RET

Now, move the mouse to the menu bar and pull down the buffers menu,
and select the buffers sub-menu

Note that the sub-menu appears to the left of the pulldown menu
instead of to the right.

It looks like the algorithm is: if it won't fit on the right put it on
the left (regardless of how much space there is on the left).  It
should probably be: if it won't fit on the right put it on the side
with the most space.  Maybe it should even be biased to the right
because the buffer name, flags, length, etc. are on the left, and it
seems more important that they not be obscured than that the right end
of the file pathname not be obscured.
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