GNU bug report logs - #7342
face remap per frame, not buffer

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Message #8 received at 7342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Peter Dyballa'" <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>, <7342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#7342: 24.0.50;
	synchronised appearence of buffers in different frames
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 10:13:43 -0700

> When I create another frame and decrease or increase here the font  
> size of the buffer, then the font size in the "original" 
> buffer in the first frame is synchronised and also changes its
> font size. I don't like this. I create the new frame to be able
> to work on an "optimised" copy temporarily, preserving the original
> appearance for later work. 
> Is there a way to preserve this original appearance? Or could an  
> option be introduced to switch off this synchronising effect?

It sounds like you are changing the text-scale factor, which affects the buffer,
regardless of where it is displayed.

Alternatively, you can change the size of the default font for a frame, which
affects all buffers displayed in that frame.

See http://emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts#ChangingFontSize.

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