VSCode still doesn’t have an easy way to change the font size and line height of side bar text. All current solutions to achieve this are hacky and either require loading in a custom CSS file that modifies the sidebar styling or updating the zoom level globally and then modifying the editor/terminal…

+1 for the feature. It is almost impossible to read chat output on 13 inch screen. Generally, we’ve many windows open and the font size is just un-readable. I copy paste the entire chat in a new buffer to read it. Please work on a fix for this one.

Just to be sure, is the font size in the chat the same as in the editor for you? Or is it smaller than the editor font size?

@truell20 It’s much smaller than my editor font, very hard to read on 13 inch screen :frowning: I’ve currently zoomed in the entire editor ( changed window.zoomLevel from 0 to 0.3) and then reduced my editor and terminal font size to compensate, but this has the unfortunate side effect of making ev…

Still no workaround/solution? Really struggling with this…

I figured it out! Steps: Install the APC Customize UI extension ( Apc Customize UI++ - Visual Studio Marketplace ) In your editor settings, add this: "apc.stylesheet": { ".anysphere-markdown-container-root": "font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;" } Change the font size to whatever you want.

+1 Likewise struggling with this

A workaround is to use ctrl/cmd + “+” to increase font size. This will increase font size in both the editor and chat, after that you can decrease the font size of the editor in settings → Editor: Font size

This extension worked! Except here is the settings.json that worked for me: "apc.stylesheet": { ".anysphere-markdown-container-root": "font-size: 15px !important; line-height: 1.5 !important;", ".view-line": "font-size: 14px !important;", ".aislash-editor-input": "font-size: 15px !impor…

HOW HASN’T THIS SHIPPED YET??? I’ve been subscribed for close to a year now (almost as long as this post has existed basically) and I’m still getting wildly mistmatched font sizes between my editor and Cursor. I can configure fifteen fucking thousand beta features in the settings but not font size? …

Changing Chat Panel Font Size / Line Height easily

Ideas Feature Requests

truell20 (Michael Truell) September 21, 2023, 1:26am 5

Could you send a screenshot?

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