From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: daniela-spit@gmx.it
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Making windows have same number of columns
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:41:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czzzucqt.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-4eb9af68-9c45-4389-870a-a3d6b1bac447-1606419046227@3c-app-mailcom-bs06> (daniela-spit@gmx.it's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:30:46 +0100")
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:30:46 +0100 daniela-spit@gmx.it wrote:
>> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2020 at 8:21 PM
>> From: "Stephen Berman" <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> To: daniela-spit@gmx.it
>> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> Subject: Re: Making windows have same number of columns
>>
>> On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:01:24 +0100 daniela-spit@gmx.it wrote:
>>
>> >> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2020 at 7:55 PM
>> >> From: "Stephen Berman" <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
>> >> To: daniela-spit@gmx.it
>> >> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> >> Subject: Re: Making windows have same number of columns
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 19:26:39 +0100 daniela-spit@gmx.it wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Is there a command to make zoom in and out a window to a specific
>> >> > number of columns?
>> >>
>> >> If you mean widen or narrow the selected window, there's
>> >> enlarge-window-horizontally and shrink-window-horizontally, bound
>> >> respectively to `C-x }' and `C-x {'. They both take a numeric prefix
>> >> argument, so e.g. `C-u 10 C-x }' widens the selected window by 10
>> >> columns.
>> >
>> > I would like that the window stays the same size, but with the size
>> > of the text in the window to be such that the window displays a specific
>> > number of columns.
>>
>> I'm not aware of any command or function in Emacs that adjusts text size
>> according to number of columns. You've mentioned zooming in and out, by
>> which I assume you mean either `C-x C-+' and `C-x C-' or the
>> corresponding mouse binding <C-mouse-4> (i.e., holding down the Control
>> key while scrolling the mouse wheel). But that command is
>> text-scale-adjust, which actually changes the height of the font, and
>> correspondingly the width, but AFAIK you cannot make it adjust the font
>> size by a specific number of columns.
>
> Yes, but when you use the scroll wheel you have no real control, one wheel
> scroll down could get the text too small. I would like a way that stops
> me fidgeting with the controls and lets me do what I want with simply
> pressing a key sequence.
As noted, you can use the key sequences `C-x C-+' and `C-x C-' instead
of the mouse scroll wheel.
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:33:32 +0100 daniela-spit@gmx.it wrote:
> No, you can't. But that not what I am after. What I need is text-scale-adjust
> that gets as close as possible to fitting n characters, 55 say.
You can try customizing text-scale-mode-step to a smaller value, though
there's not a great deal of leeway, since its default value is 1.2 and
it has to be >1.0 to have an effect. You might try 1.1 or even a bit
less and see if that gives you more control.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-26 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-26 14:43 Making windows have same number of columns daniela-spit
2020-11-26 16:03 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 16:18 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 17:16 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 18:26 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 18:55 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 19:01 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 19:21 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 19:30 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 19:41 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2020-11-26 20:22 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 20:31 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 21:19 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 22:05 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 23:01 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-26 23:07 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-26 23:55 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-27 0:51 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-27 1:03 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-27 15:37 ` Stephen Berman
2020-11-26 21:42 ` daniela-spit
2020-11-27 20:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-26 19:33 ` daniela-spit
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