From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: make ctrl-+ increase font size? Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:08:13 -0700 Message-ID: <006f01c9c813$2b1eea70$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <87prewesv8.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240931353 2203 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2009 15:09:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:09:13 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Simon Josefsson'" , Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 28 17:09:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LyovV-0000WP-4j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:08:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LyovU-0007Lw-Dv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LyovA-0007Io-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:08:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lyov5-0007HR-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:08:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47404 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lyov5-0007HO-Bk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:08:27 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:27373) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lyov4-0007CA-Ti for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:08:27 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n3SF8S1Z006953 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:08:30 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt704.oracle.com (acsmt704.oracle.com [141.146.40.82]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n3SF8RYg003433; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:08:28 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.64.1) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:08:18 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87prewesv8.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 Thread-Index: AcnIEJmsaeNpkazKQAiGkDlhAHkemwAAIB9g X-Source-IP: acsmt704.oracle.com [141.146.40.82] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A010203.49F71BE3.022A:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110514 Archived-At: > Ctrl-+ seems unused right now. Can we make it a short-cut for > increasing the font size? Ctrl-+ is used to increase the font > size in many GNOME applications (and other applications too) > so it would be nice to be consistent here. > > Ctrl-- is already taken, but maybe it isn't that important? I, for one, would be against it. Let's keep that key for users. It's easy enough for any user to bind `C-+' to whatever command s?he wants, including one that increases the font size. (Of course, you need a command that does that. ;-)) [I bind `C-+', for example, to a command that toggles showing crosshair highlighting at point. And I bind a command that increases the font size to `C-wheel-up' (and to `S-mouse-1', except in some modes).] And yes, `C--' is very important. Many commands provide alternative behavior when you use a negative prefix arg, and `C--' is useful for that. Just `C--' alone (no following digits) is the quickest way to reverse the behavior of many commands that simply test the sign of the prefix arg.