11.10geditzooming
I am using Ubuntu 11.10. This seems to be an easy question, yet I cannot find an answer anywhere.
On pre-unity Ubuntu, I was using gedit-zoom plugin to zoom text in editor window in/out, either with Ctrl++/-, or by holding Ctrl+ scrolling mouse-wheel. The same plugin does not seem to work in Ubuntu 11.10.
Any way I can get text zooming capability?
is an integrated development environment that provides good column editing support which is worth checking out (an example here)
Simply put, press down Alt+Shift instead of just Shift while making selections to invoke column mode. One important limitation is that the edits in column mode are (as yet) not undo-able.
To achieve the same with the mouse, hold down Ctrl while selecting. This actually works with most Scintilla-based editors (including SciTE and Geany).
None of the packages on that list will load anything that can make your system slow down.
It will install the necessary libraries, the rest of the dependencies that are not satisfied, etc but will only call them when you run gedit and will go away when you close it. I dont think you will have any performance issues related to installing gedit on your Lunbuntu system.
Best Answer
Under Edit → Preferences → Plugins, you can tick the Text Size box and zoom in with ctrl++.
Click on gedit-plugins
to install the Gedit plugins.
You can also manually download/install the plugin.
ctrl+Trackpad scroll (up/down) enables you, to zoom in and out as well, not only within gEdit, but also in your Webbrowser, File System etc.
Both possibilities work just fine in Ubuntu 11.10.
Update information for Ubuntu 17.x.x, 18.x.x and later, as suggested by code_dredd - tested and works: