Hey guys, I was thinking of making a keyboard shortcut to increase/decrease font size for editor. So far I have been thinking about using ShortcutRecorder for specific key press event and when it is triggered we would increase 'style.editor.fontSize' from Setting.ts. If this sounds good can anyone…

hey @roman_r_m I was thinking about making a plugin for this but while reading Plugin API I found out that it doesn't allow accessing Joplin's built in setting. Currently this API does not provide access to Joplin's built-in settings. So my question is will it be possible to access 'Editor Font Siz…

[image] makb: So my question is will it be possible to access 'Editor Font Size' from this API if not how would I go about making this plugin? I'm not sure, probably it's not possible to access this setting. In that case, you just can't make this plugin at all.

Ohhk so in that case I think I will just change the category of this post to Feature. I guess I cant change the category now.

hey @roman_r_m sorry for pinging you but can you tell me should I reopen this as new 'Feature Request' post?

We could accept this feature but you'd need to explain, at a high level, how it will be implemented. For example, we can't have shortcuts without associated menu items, so we need to know where would the items go. Will the feature applies to both editors or just one of them; what commands, if any, w…

Yeah sure. I will look into it and update you with technical details soon.

Implementation: hey @laurent , as you said we can't have shortcuts without associated menu items my idea is to make 2 more buttons in CodeMirror's Toolbar. [NewCodeMirrorToolBar] (Here I have just added A+ and A- for demo purpose we will probably use different icons) For this feature I think my…

No sorry we won't add more toolbar buttons at this point.

Keyboard Shortcut to increase/decrease editor font size

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makb 21 January 2022 13:41 11

ok Thanks

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Keyboard Shortcut to increase/decrease editor font size

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