Re: make ctrl-+ increase font size?

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
>> 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?
>
> There was already a discussion about this, leading to the current
> compromise bindings of C-x C-+ (etc).  You can search the emacs-devel
> list for that if you want.

Ah, sorry I had missed that.  I have put

(define-key global-map [?\C-+] 'text-scale-increase)
(define-key global-map [?\C--] 'text-scale-decrease)

in my ~/.emacs and can live with it, although I suspect the concern will
come up again in the future.

/Simon