Keyboard shortcut to change font size in Eclipse?

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Doug picture Doug · Aug 4, 2011 · Viewed 170.3k times · Source

It is relatively straightforward to change font sizes in Eclipse through preferences (and answered several times in this forum).

However I'd like to change font size quickly (e.g., with Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- like in Linux terminal or Ctrl+mouse wheel in MS Office apps). Is there a way to do this in Eclipse?

Answer

ROMANIA_engineer picture ROMANIA_engineer · May 19, 2016

Eclipse Neon (4.6)

Zoom In

Ctrl++

or

Ctrl+=

Zoom Out

Ctrl+-

This feature is described here:

In text editors, you can now use Zoom In (Ctrl++ or Ctrl+=) and Zoom Out (Ctrl+-) commands to increase and decrease the font size. Like a change in the General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts preference page, the commands persistently change the font size in all editors of the same type. If the editor type's font is configured to use a default font, then that default font will be zoomed.

So, the font size change is not limited to the current file and the new value of the font size is available here Window > Preferences > General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts.

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