notepad++ allow me to increase the font size when I hold the Ctrl Key and rotate the mouse middle scroll button to forward.
In the same way, the when I hold Ctrl and rotate the mouse middle scroll button backward, the fond size reduces.
How can I get the same with Emacs?
code for AlexCombas' answer:
(defun font-big ()
(interactive)
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
(+ (face-attribute 'default :height) 10)))
(defun font-small ()
(interactive)
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
(- (face-attribute 'default :height) 10)))
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-wheel-down>") 'font-small)
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-wheel-up>") 'font-big)
Edit: for a min and a max use
(defun font-big ()
(interactive)
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
(min 720
(+ (face-attribute 'default :height) 10))))
(defun font-small ()
(interactive)
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height
(max 80
(- (face-attribute 'default :height) 10))))
with emacs23 you can add following lines to your .emacs.el:
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-mouse-4>") 'text-scale-decrease)
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-mouse-5>") 'text-scale-increase)
Theoretically I can give you the answer to this, but someone more skilled than me is going to have to write the lisp I'm just a little to busy atm to figure it out for myself.
If nobody responds by tomorrow I'll hit the books and figure it out.
What needs to be done:
Write a function (font-big) which does this:
font-default-size = font-default-size+1`
Then re-evaluate all open buffers.
Then Bind the function to a key (define-key map [C-wheel-up] 'font-big)
Then do the same for (font-small).
I hope I get at least partial credits for the idea :)
Try this:
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-mouse-4>") (lambda () (interactive) (text-scale-decrease 1)))
(global-set-key (kbd "<C-mouse-5>") (lambda () (interactive) (text-scale-increase 1)))
Zoom Frame is what you want. I do exactly what you describe all the time. After loading zoom-frm.el
, add some bindings such as these:
(global-set-key [S-mouse-1] 'zoom-in)
(global-set-key [C-S-mouse-1] 'zoom-out)
(global-set-key (vector (list 'control mouse-wheel-down-event)) 'zoom-in)
(global-set-key (vector (list 'control mouse-wheel-up-event)) 'zoom-out)
See also: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts#ChangingFontSize