From: daniela-spit@gmx.it
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Making windows have same number of columns
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:33:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-83a09627-dd35-4052-b826-532edcfa3d7f-1606419212689@3c-app-mailcom-bs06> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0u7udo1.fsf@gmx.net>
> 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.
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.
> Steve Berman
>
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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
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 [this message]
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