Re: Increase text size of the minibuffer

Stéphane Marks <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <CAN+1HbpAL1neGQsGaDG98Nk-ogcVhb-ag-tqyD2ban+Ef1-gAg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 11:24 AM Heime <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 at 2:57 AM, Stéphane Marks <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 10:42 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Heime <[email protected]> writes:
> > >
> > > > How can I increase the size of text in the minibuffer, because I am
> > > > finding it too small for me.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Until someone can answer your question, you can increase the
> > > size of the font that you are using in Emacs.
> > >
> > >    Emacs menu -> Options -> Set Default Font...
> > >
> >
> > Try something like this which will scale up your default font by 150%.
> Use
> > an integer to specify a hard-coded height.  See
> >
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Face-Attributes.html
> > for
> > details on :height specification.
> >
> >   (defun my/minibuffer-setup-hook ()
> >     (set (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist)
> >          '((default :height 1.5))))
> >   (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook #'my/minibuffer-setup-hook)
>
> I did "C-x C-e" after each, but the minibuffer stayed the same size.
>

No idea for you.  Works for me.  Poke around and debug it.  Look to see if
there's anything else on minibuffer-setup-hook.
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