Re: FW: [External] : Question Regarding How To Adjust Default Zoom Level In Every New Buffer

[Samuel Banya]

I just want to change the default zoom to +1, that's it honestly.

On Tue, May 24, 2022, at 2:54 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
> [Forwarding my initial msg to the list, as it got dropped from Reply All]
> 
> > Is there a way to adjust an Emacs config so that it adjusts the default
> > zoom level to +1 or +2?
> > 
> > I ask because on my work Macbook, the default fonts are so small, but
> > this is a limitation because of how dumb Macbooks interpret screen
> > resolution when you connect two monitors to it since its based upon the
> > laptop screen's resolution as the standard. Otherwise, you would have
> > to blow up the text and font size of everything within the MacOS
> > settings which makes web browsers look really jenky.
> > 
> > With this in mind, is there any way to adjust the 'text-scale-adjust'
> > value so that it starts at +1 no matter what?
> 
> Why do you want to start with +1 `text-scale-adjust',
> as opposed to just setting the font with the size you
> want in `default-frame-alist'?  That will give you
> the baseline size you want for text-scaling (as zero,
> not as +1).
> 
> (You could adjust that setting to whatever platform
> you're currently running Emacs on.)
> 
>