Enable Ctrl+Scroll or gesture on touchpad to change zoom in common way

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Enable Ctrl+Scroll or gesture on touchpad to change zoom as is currently done with Ctrl±, Ctrl+=. As is common e.g. in internet browser.
purpose: be more intuitive for new users.

  • When no graphview is displayed in the active pane. (In Graph View it already works.)
  • When no map in iframe is under cursor.

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We won’t be implementing this. Obsidian is not an internet browser despite using web technologies. Most people don’t expect their desktop app to resize everything when ctrl/cmd+scrolling, especially since ctrl is often pressed for all kinds of hotkey combinations like ctrl+z, ctrl+c, etc. It’s quite easy to accidentally scroll and make the interface huge or tiny, not knowing how to go back to normal.

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Thank you for reply. That surprises me.
For me in Windows 7, both touchpad gesture and Ctrl+scroll work in:

  • AutoHotkey offline help, EmEditor, Google Chrome, IrfanView, LibreOffice, Opera, Microsoft Paint, Stellarium, editor in SuperMemo, TheBrain, VLC Media player, Windows desktop, Windows Explorer, …

So I considered it to be a standard and expected behavior. Maybe other OS is different. I do not recall having issue of zooming accidentally due to this functionality.
But I fully respect your decision.

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We might be adding a editor font size as a plugin - when that’s available it might be reasonable to hook that up to Ctrl+Scroll. Right now the only zooming mechanism is zooming the entire interface which doesn’t seem to happen on most other apps.

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it would be cool to add zoom of text with “ctrl + mouse scroll” like notepad++ or any ide studio

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You can use Ctrl +, Ctrl - to zoom-in/out the interface.

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Yes, but then the whole interface will increase
and something will break. I want to increase only the text as in Word or Notepad++ is it possible?

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You are specifically looking to increase the font size of the editor window with this? No, it is not currently possible.

You can modify the font-size property via custom CSS. Perhaps someone will build a plugin to modify this font-size property with the scroll wheel, as you suggest.

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This was already requested and moved to feature archive by @Licat
Details are in: Enable Ctrl+Scroll or gesture on touchpad to change zoom in common way

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Moving this back to feature requests - not going to get to it right now but it’s still a good idea once there’s an easy way to change font size for the editor.

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+1 on wanting the feature. I switch between a large monitor and a small one. My eye sight isn’t what it used to be and my first instinct is to zoom into the text. I know I can change the system setting, but it is not something I really need until I am trying to focus on a long paragraph of text, which happens to be what my notes are like.

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Font resize Implemented in 0.12

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