Eclipse IDE How to zoom in on text

Question

I want the same behaviour Firefox has  when you use the scroll button in the mouse to zoom in and out on the current view   Is there something like it for eclipse

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The Eclipse-Fonts extension will add toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts for changing font size. You can then use AutoHotkey to make Ctrl+Mousewheel zoom.

Under Help | Install New Software... in the menu, paste the update URL (http://eclipse-fonts.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FontsUpdate/) into the Works with: text box and press Enter. Expand the tree and select FontsFeature as in the following image:

Eclipse extension installation screen capture

Complete the installation and restart Eclipse, then you should see the A toolbar buttons (circled in red in the following image) and be able to use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+- and Ctrl+= to zoom (although you may have to unbind those keys from Eclipse first).

Eclipse screen capture with the font size toolbar buttons circled

To get Ctrl+MouseWheel zooming, you can use AutoHotkey with the following script:

; Ctrl+MouseWheel zooming in Eclipse.
; Requires Eclipse-Fonts (https://code.google.com/p/eclipse-fonts/).
; Thank you for the unique window class, SWT/Eclipse.
#IfWinActive ahk_class SWT_Window0
    ^WheelUp:: Send ^{=}
    ^WheelDown:: Send ^-
#IfWinActive

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Too late but it could be helpful    Go to Window Menu   Preferences   General   Appearance   Colors and Fonts  then go to Java   Java Editor Text Font   Edit

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Starting from tonight nightly build of 4 6 Neon  the Eclipse Platform includes a way to increase decrease font size on text editors using Ctrl  and Ctrl-  on Windows or Linux  Cmd  and Cmd- on Mac OS X    https   www eclipse org eclipse news 4 6 M4  text-zoom-commands   The implementation is shipped with any product using a recent build of the platform  and is more reliable that the one in the alternative plugins mentioned above  It will be more widely available within weeks  when the IDE packages for Neon M4 will be available  and it will be part of the public Neon release in June 2016

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I ve answered it here  How can I change font size in Eclipse for Java text editors   For Eclipse Neon  To Increase Ctrl    To reduce Ctrl -

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The tarlog plugin  combined with removing -Dorg eclipse swt internal carbon smallFonts from eclipse ini  helps my tired eyes on MacOS Yosemite with Eclipse Luna  4 4    Problem  Didn t work for me for a PyDev foo py Python file  Workaround  Open a file named foo java - change the font size  Go back to foo py and voila   - the python font size matches the java font size

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The googlecode fontsupdate does not work anymore unfortunately  You can however just download the code from github   https   github com gkorland Eclipse-Fonts  Just download it as  zip  and add it in eclipse   Adding a local plugin  Then you have the familiar buttons again

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Here s a quicker way than multi-layer menus without resorting to plug-ins   Use the Quick Access tool at the upper left corner   Type in  font   then  from the list that drops down  click on the link for  Preferences- Colors and Fonts- General- Appearance     One click replaces the 4 needed to get there through menus  I do it so often  my Quick Access tool pulls it up as a previous choice right at the top of the list so I can just type  font  with a tap on the enter key and Boom   I m there   If you want a keyboard shortcut  Ctrl 3 sets the focus to the Quick Access tool  Better yet  this even automatically brings up a list with your previous choices  The last one you chose will be on top  in which case a simple Ctrl 3 followed by enter would bring you straight there  I use this all the time to make it bigger  during long typing or reading sessions to ease eye strain  or to make it smaller if I need more text on the screen at one time to make it easier to find something    It s not quite as nice as zooming with the scroll wheel  but it s a lot better than navigating through the menus every time

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On Mac you can do Press  Command  and     buttons to zoom in  press  Command  and  -  buttons to zoom out

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There is a project from a guy called  tarlog  that made a plugin for eclipse at this google code site  http   code google com p tarlog-plugins downloads detail name tarlog eclipse plugins 1 4 2 jar amp can 2 amp q   It has some other features for eclipse  amongst which is Ctrl   and Ctrl - to change the font size  it s frickin  awesome

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As per the recent changes you can use   1  Ctrl Shift     for Zoom-in   2  Ctrl Shift  -  for Zoom-out

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Just by pressing Ctrl   Shift       or  -    At least  it worked for me at Eclipse  2020-03  version

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Here is a cool way of ensuring zoom in and zoom out with mouse scroll-wheel in the Eclipse Editor  This one takes inspiration from the solution above from naveed ahmad which was not working for me   1  First download Autohotkey from http   www autohotkey com  and install it  then run it   2  Then download tarlog-plugins from https   code google com p tarlog-plugins downloads list  3  Put the downloaded  jar file in the eclipse plugins folder   4  Restart Eclipse   5  Add the following Autohotkey script  save it then reload it  right click on Autohotkey icon in taskbar and click  Reload this script      Ctrl   MouseWheel zooming in Eclipse Editor    Requires Tarlog plugins  https   code google com p tarlog-plugins     IfWinActive ahk class SWT Window0  WheelUp   Send   NumpadAdd   WheelDown   Send   NumpadSub   IfWinActive   And you should be done  You can now zoom in or zoom out with ctrl mousewheel up and ctrl mousewheel down  The only caveat is that Autohotkey must be running for this solution to work so ensure that it starts with Windows or run it just before firing Eclipse up  Works fine in Eclipse Kepler and Luna

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To zoom on Eclipse you can use   CTRL SHIFT   OR -

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What I am doing is using the Windows 10 magnifier  Not the same as zooming on firefox  but it has been quite useful

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Even more reliable than  mifmif    Go to Window Menu   Preferences   General   Appearance   Colors and Fonts  then go to Basic   This section has about 5 different fonts in it  all of which contain a size   If you go to an item in any other section  like Java   Java Editor Text Font as  mifmif suggested  the Edit Default and Go to Default buttons will be enabled   Clicking the latter takes you to the corresponding item in the Basic section   Clicking the former lets you edit that item directly   Changing the Basic font items will handle not only Java text but just about every other text in Eclipse that can be resized  as far as I can tell

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For Zoom In  CTRL   SHIFT     For Zoom Out   CTRL   SHIFT   -

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As mentioned in another answer  this plugin  http   code google com p tarlog-plugins downloads detail name tarlog eclipse plugins 1 4 2 jar amp can 2 amp q   makes Ctrl-  and Ctrl-- zoom in and out   On MacOS that would be    and  -   But at least on MacOS Lion and Eclipse Helios   - worked but not        no key combination  and I tried a bunch  including    and variants with Ctrl and Shift  would increase font size   However  by changing the key bindings  I was able to get it to work   Preferences    General    Keys  Commands  Zoom Out  and  Decrease Font  were already set to  -  and that seemed to work   so I set  Zoom In  and  Increase Font  to     one of them was that and the other was      and that worked

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go to Eclipse   Prefences   General   Appearance   Color and Fonts   Basic   Text Font   Font problem will resolved I guess Dont need a any plugin for this

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