Re: Contributing to Emacs

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2022 at 2:55 AM
> From: "Visuwesh" <visuweshm@gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, jaopaulolc@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Contributing to Emacs
>
> [வியாழன் செப்டம்பர் 08, 2022] Christopher Dimech wrote:
> 
> >> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2022 at 1:47 AM
> >> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> >> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> >> Cc: jaopaulolc@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Subject: Re: Contributing to Emacs
> >>
> >> > From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
> >> > Cc: jaopaulolc@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 14:12:01 +0200
> >> > 
> >> > @Eli, a pleasant thing would be to mention the commands for window and frame
> >> > related scaling in the documentation of "text-scale-increase" and "text-scale-decrease".
> >> 
> >> They are mentioned in the doc string of text-scale-adjust, which is
> >> the preferred user interface for this.
> >
> > What I get is the following.  I do not see any reference for the functionality
> > that scales text in response to window resizing.
> 
> You have an old checkout?  I'm on a pretty recent HEAD and docstring of
> text-scale-adjust links to global-text-scale-adjust.

I get emacs-28.1.91 of 5 weeks ago.
 
>     This command is a special-purpose wrapper around the
>     ‘text-scale-increase’ command which makes repetition convenient
>     even when it is bound in a non-top-level keymap.  For binding in
>     a top-level keymap, ‘text-scale-increase’ or
>     ‘text-scale-decrease’ may be more appropriate.
> 
>     Most faces are affected by these font size changes, but not faces
>     that have an explicit ‘:height’ setting.  The two exceptions to
>     this are the ‘default’ and ‘header-line’ faces: they will both be
>     scaled even if they have an explicit ‘:height’ setting.
> 
>     See also the related command ‘global-text-scale-adjust’.
> 
>       Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 28.1.
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