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27.0.50; No mouse-wheel scaling on images

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 38187 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: bug#38187: 27.0.50; No mouse-wheel scaling on images
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:49:49 +0100

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

>> FWIW, I think the opposite.  I think that zooming text, images and all
>> buffer content together should be the default.  I believe that it
>> would feel both natural and familiar, especially to new users, since
>> that's how e.g. web browsers, LibreOffice and evince, etc. works.
>
> That's true.  I guess the scroll button could change both
> image-scaling-factor and text-scale-mode-amount...

Perhaps we should open a separate issue for that?

> But, on the other hand, I could definitely see people preferring to
> change just one or the other.  So perhaps there should be separate
> commands that people can bind according to their preference?

100 % agree.

>> (That also reminds me that, IMO, text-scale-increase/decrease should
>> be renamed to font-size-increase/decrease.  The current names are not
>> very discoverable; when one wants to change the font size, and says:
>> `M-x font TAB'.  At the very least, we should have such defaliases.)
>
> Makes sense to me.

How does the attached patch look?  I took the minimal route of just
adding convenience aliases.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

[0001-Add-aliases-font-size-increase-decrease.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

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