Subject: Re: bug#41852: 27.0.50; text-scale commands don't scale header of tabulated-list-mode

From: Thomas Hisch <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 19:23:06 +0200

On 6/14/20 6:28 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>>> If the text is scaled (using `text-scale-increase`) in a
>>> `tabulated-list-mode` buffer, the text of the header is not scaled,
>>> which leads to a messed up (row data doesn't align with header row) buffer.
>>
>> text-scale-increase affects only the default face and faces that
>> inherit from it.  It isn't supposed to affect any other face, such as
>> the mode-line, the header-line, etc.
>>
>> So you are actually asking for a new feature of the
>> tabulated-list-mode, whereby it defines "C-x +" etc. to produce effect
>> specific to that mode.
>
> Sounds reasonable to expect that column headings
> remain over the columns they head.  We can call
> that an enhancement request or a bug to be fixed.
> ___
>
> Just an FYI, and not to take anything away from
> either the enhancement request or Eli's note above:
>
> There's another way to zoom in and out, which does
> affect also the header-line and mode-line, in which
> case the reported bug doesn't manifest - column
> headers remain over the columns: zoom the frame,
> not the buffer.
>
> (Another difference, however, is that zooming a
> frame affects all windows/buffers in it, and it
> doesn't zoom the current buffer in other frames.
> So it has different use cases from buffer zooming.
> It's not what this bug report is about, but it
> might be helpful info for Thomas in some contexts.)
>
> Library `zoom-frm.el' provides frame-zooming
> commands.

Thx, this seems to be a helpful library, although it was a bit tedious
to install (required two additional libs: frame-cmds.el, frame-fns.el).

> ___
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/zoom-frm.el
>
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