Re: Increase text size of the minibuffer

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 12:36 PM Heime <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 at 3:55 AM, Stéphane Marks <
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> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 11:52 AM Heime <[email protected]>
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> > > On Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 at 3:40 AM, Heime <
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> > > > On Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 at 3:26 AM, Stéphane Marks <
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> > > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 11:24 AM Heime <[email protected]
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> > > > > > On Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 at 2:57 AM, Stéphane Marks <
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> > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 10:42 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > > > > > Heime <[email protected]> writes:
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> > > > > > > > > How can I increase the size of text in the minibuffer,
> because
> > > I am
> > > > > > > > > finding it too small for me.
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> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Until someone can answer your question, you can increase the
> > > > > > > > size of the font that you are using in Emacs.
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> > > > > > > >    Emacs menu -> Options -> Set Default Font...
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> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Try something like this which will scale up your default font
> by
> > > 150%.
> > > > > > Use
> > > > > > > an integer to specify a hard-coded height.  See
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> 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)
> > >
> > > Can one use (setq-local face-remapping-alist '((default :height 1.5)))
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> >
> > Why not give it a try and find out?
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>  (make-local-variable VARIABLE) states that it makes VARIABLE
> have a separate value in the current buffer.  But that other
> buffers will continue to share a common default value.
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> I want to have the minibuffer always using the changed value.
>

You have the source code.  If you read the definition of defvar-local you
will see it does the same thing.  Did you try it?

(defmacro defvar-local (var val &optional docstring)
  (list 'progn (list 'defvar var val docstring)
        (list 'make-variable-buffer-local (list 'quote var))))