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Long text going off the screen in the "Recent Projects" list

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the code that renders the Recent Projects list in dashboard-nvim and inspect how project paths are displayed. The change is complete when paths longer than the available width are shortened with an ellipsis instead of extending beyond the screen.

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Description

Query
Is there a way to infer longer texts for project paths by appending dots (...) at the end so that it does not go off the screen?

Eg. "Long/file/path..."

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