Text Zoom in putty emacs

Question

I'm currently using Emacs 23.1 on a remote server through putty. I would like to be able to zoom out (so I can view all my code when needed). I've tried several methods and none of them have worked.

Text-scale-decrease and text-scale-increase give no errors but don't change the text size

The zoom-frm plugin tells me that "symbol's function definition is void: query-fontset" when I attempt to use any of its methods (all dependencies listed are installed)

The doremi-frm plugin either gives no errors and does nothing, or complains about face-remap (depending on what function is used)

I'm wondering at this point if zoom is possible within putty, and if so how do I get it to work properly.

PS Opening a remote X11 session with the Emacs GUI is not an option.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to config putty instead.

Open putty, then click Window > Fonts on the left panel to change font size.

Answer 2

1. What Emacs are you using? You say Emacs 23.1, but that has `query-fontset' (as do also older and more recent Emacs versions, from GNU Emacs 20 to the latest GNU Emacs 24 dev build).

2. Likewise, GNU Emacs 23.1 has face-remap' and all of its relatives, face-remap-*'.

3. I can't answer the putty questions, but can you check in some other way whether Emacs at the remote end actually zooms OK using any of the methods you describe? IOW, try to remove putty from the equation, to see what happens.