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text-scale-adjust suggestion

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Message #19 received at 21634 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 21634 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#21634: text-scale-adjust suggestion
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 13:02:53 +0200

Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org> writes:

> Well, I suspect that I'm annoyed at the other direction: whenever I go
> into the text-scaling mode, I try to remember to explicitly break it at
> the end, so that I won't leave emacs in that state by mistake and be
> surpries when I come back to it hours later (which actually happened to
> me once, possibly putting me on this side of that fence).  OTOH, if the
> delay is long enough, there is never any time pressure that I run into,
> and it's easy to see when the timer kicked in by the echo area message
> disappearing.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

We now have something similar in the form of `repeat-exit-timeout'
(which defaults to "no timeout").  Perhaps it would make sense to use
this in `text-scale-adjust'?  Any opinions?

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