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    From au76666@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 9 08:05:36 2018
    My emacs has just updated itself and now the font is
    too small for my old eyes. I used to know how to adjust
    the font size but have forgotten. How is it done please?

    Also every time I enter emacs, it offers me a tutorial,
    which I don't need or want. I click on "Dismiss.." but
    it keeps coming back. How do I dismiss it permanently?

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    Dieter Britz

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  • From N. Jackson@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 9 06:00:50 2018
    At 08:05 +0000 on Tuesday 2018-10-09, au wrote:

    My emacs has just updated itself and now the font is too small for
    my old eyes. I used to know how to adjust the font size but have
    forgotten. How is it done please?

    One way to do it is `M-x menu-set-font' or, using the menus

    Options > Set Default Font...

    and set the size at the bottom of the dialog.

    Also every time I enter emacs, it offers me a tutorial, which I
    don't need or want. I click on "Dismiss.." but it keeps coming
    back. How do I dismiss it permanently?

    If this offer of the tutorial is the one on the "About GNU Emacs"
    startup screen, you can disable it by Customizing
    `inhibit-startup-screen' or add `(setq inhibit-startup-screen t)' to
    you init file.

    If there is an explicit offer of a tutorial, it sounds like you are
    using a non-standard distribution of Emacs (or perhaps a version I
    have never seen (or have forgotten)). In this case, I suggest you
    check the documentation for the distribution.

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  • From au76666@21:1/5 to N. Jackson on Wed Oct 10 09:49:37 2018
    On Tue, 09 Oct 2018 06:00:50 -0400, N. Jackson wrote:

    At 08:05 +0000 on Tuesday 2018-10-09, au wrote:

    My emacs has just updated itself and now the font is too small for my
    old eyes. I used to know how to adjust the font size but have
    forgotten. How is it done please?

    One way to do it is `M-x menu-set-font' or, using the menus

    Options > Set Default Font...

    and set the size at the bottom of the dialog.

    I seem to remember there was a CTRL-<something> command that gave
    me fonts and their sizes. But OK, thanks.


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    Dieter Britz

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  • From N. Jackson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 10 09:52:03 2018
    At 09:49 +0000 on Wednesday 2018-10-10, au wrote:

    I seem to remember there was a CTRL-<something> command that gave
    me fonts and their sizes. But OK, thanks.

    Yes, that's `text-scale-adjust':

    C-x C-+ or C-x C-= scale default font in the window to increase size.

    C-x C-- scale default font in the window to decrease size.

    C-x C-0 reset scaling of default font in the window to
    the global default.

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