microsoft / microsoft/terminal

Windows terminal command line should allow for a `--zoom` modifier when starting a new tab/window

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Area-Commandline Issue-Feature Product-Terminal
Dominant language
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Description

### Description of the new feature

I have my desktop environment fully bootstrapped automatically via pwsh and `wt` CLI. However the one glaring gap is:
- I can't specify the zoom level on each pane individually (and `--size` has no impact on this)

Each pane has a different purpose and need different levels of scaling against the default. I would also be okay with a absolute rather than relative flag like: `--font-size 12px`

### Example Terminal Window 1

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Research direction

Start by tracing existing wt command-line parsing, especially --size, and the code that applies pane font scaling. Clarify whether the requested option is relative or absolute, then verify that a new tab or window can assign the requested scaling independently to each pane.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp, powershell
Domain
cli, desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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