"editor.mouseWheelZoom": true - should be on by default

[DerekSMorin]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30192884/is-it-possible-to-configure-control-scroll-wheel-to-increase-decrease-zoom-in

This has 218 upvotes at stack overflow.

[DerekSMorin]

I'm not sure on the downvote, the original screen cap showed a snarky comment, so that might have been it. I have removed that portion of the image. But 218 upvotes on this question, seems to me like false is an odd default. Ctrl + scrollwheel works in browsers, visual studio, even microsoft teams. Seems odd to have it off by default.

[alexdima]

This request is sensitive and makes sense. But we have a technical problem that has forced us to ship with the setting off by default:

When we initially added this feature, the setting was on by default. But then we received numerous complaints that people were changing the font size of the editor by accident. It turns out that all of those complaints came from folks using a laptop with a trackpad, and perhaps doing some copy-pasting (which involves ctrl/cmd) and touching the trackpad with their hands a bit, inadvertently scrolling, and producing a mousewheel event with ctrl/cmd.

The technical limitation is that we cannot differentiate mousewheel events coming in from the trackpad from events coming in from a physical mouse wheel. So we cannot fix that problem, so we have to leave this setting behind a flag to which people opt in (and most likely they opt in if they use a mouse with a physical wheel)...

There is a workaround that I use when I work on a macbook, which is to bind the font zoom to the otherwise window zoom keybindings:

	// Use font zooming and never window zooming
	{ "key": "cmd+numpad_add",		"command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn", "when": "isMac" },
	{ "key": "shift+cmd+=",			"command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn", "when": "isMac" },
	{ "key": "cmd+=",				"command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn", "when": "isMac" },
	{ "key": "cmd+numpad_subtract",	"command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut", "when": "isMac" },
	{ "key": "shift+cmd+-",			"command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut", "when": "isMac" },
	{ "key": "cmd+-",				"command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut", "when": "isMac" },
	{ "key": "cmd+numpad0",			"command": "editor.action.fontZoomReset", "when": "isMac" },
	{ "key": "cmd+0",				"command": "editor.action.fontZoomReset", "when": "isMac" },
	{ "key": "ctrl+numpad_add",		"command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn", "when": "isWindows" },
	{ "key": "ctrl+shift+=",		"command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn", "when": "isWindows" },
	{ "key": "ctrl+=",				"command": "editor.action.fontZoomIn", "when": "isWindows" },
	{ "key": "ctrl+numpad_subtract","command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut", "when": "isWindows" },
	{ "key": "ctrl+shift+-",		"command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut", "when": "isWindows" },
	{ "key": "ctrl+-",				"command": "editor.action.fontZoomOut", "when": "isWindows" },
	{ "key": "ctrl+numpad0",		"command": "editor.action.fontZoomReset", "when": "isWindows" },
	{ "key": "ctrl+0",				"command": "editor.action.fontZoomReset", "when": "isWindows" },

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