(Buffer-menu-short-ellipsis): Partly undo last change.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 271832a951a..d6108e04f28 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-11-21  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+        * buff-menu.el (Buffer-menu-short-ellipsis): Partly undo last change.
+
 2008-11-20  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
 
         * international/mule-util.el (set-nested-alist): Doc fix.  Use `when'.
diff --git a/lisp/buff-menu.el b/lisp/buff-menu.el
index b028f699bed..26314349d1c 100644
--- a/lisp/buff-menu.el
+++ b/lisp/buff-menu.el
@@ -596,7 +596,11 @@ For more information, see the function `buffer-menu'."
   (interactive "P")
   (display-buffer (list-buffers-noselect files-only)))
 
-(defconst Buffer-menu-short-ellipsis (if (char-displayable-p ?…) "…" ":"))
+(defconst Buffer-menu-short-ellipsis
+  ;; This file is preloaded, so we can't use char-displayable-p here
+  ;; because we don't know yet what display we're going to connect to.
+  ":" ;; (if (char-displayable-p ?…) "…" ":")
+  )
 
 (defun Buffer-menu-buffer+size (name size &optional name-props size-props)
   (if (> (+ (string-width name) (string-width size) 2)