Global scale
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Astro947 · 2022-02-22 15:31

I've been using Emacs in terminal mode when doing some pair-
programming over screen sharing, just because the GUI doesn't appear
to have an option to uniformly scale the interface. Am I right in
believing this? Edit for clarity: Global uniform interface scaling
would include every element of the window south of the menu bar.

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FrozenOnPluto · 2022-02-22 21:38

What do you mean uniformly scale? scale of icons in menu bar, or
global font settings or which? or by global do you mean across OSes?

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Tenn1518 · 2022-02-22 21:50

You can change the size of the text globally with:

    (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height SIZE)

where SIZE is the point size * 10. For example for 12pt text, you
would put 120.

M-x menu-set-font also lets you change it interactively. Otherwise,
there isn’t a built in way to scale the global text size up and down
with a keypress like you can with a single buffer. (at least, not that
I’m aware of)

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cradlemann · 2022-02-23 11:11

Just assign `text-scale-increase` and `text-scale-decrease` functions
on some keybindings. I use `evil` via `use-package`, so my config
looks like this

    :map evil-normal-state-map
    ("g[" . text-scale-decrease)
    ("g]" . text-scale-increase)

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wasamasa · 2022-02-23 12:15

These don't work globally.

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cradlemann · 2022-02-23 12:17

This is a part of my use-package recipe for evil. Just an example

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wasamasa · 2022-02-23 13:17

Typographically correct quotes are cute, but wrong in code.