Empty lines or lines with symbols only have smaller font size in VS2013

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In Visual Studio 2013 source code editor empty lines or lines with only symbols, such as '{' or '#', have smaller font size than lines with alphanumeric characters.

I'm using "Classic Console" fixed-width font. This font does not have this problem in other applications and in VS2013 on my computer at work.

EDIT: Actually this problem occurs with any font.

Inconsistent font size in VS

Any idea how to fix this?

MasterM

Posted 2014-10-19T21:20:45.643

Reputation: 541

Answers

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I have found the solution. It was caused by a default setting in Productivity Power Tools add-on.

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MasterM

Posted 2014-10-19T21:20:45.643

Reputation: 541

1This "fix" worked well - What a buggy "feature" though is this... – Marcel – 2014-10-27T08:43:31.513

4Very useful and evocative diagram ;) And thank you so much for choosing question and answer text that made it easy for me to discover this page on Google. +1 – Paul d'Aoust – 2015-08-11T17:27:39.787

Oh but it was so productive! – stimpy77 – 2015-10-09T18:48:03.777

In the 2017 version of the extension the options are called Compress blank lines and Compress lines that do not have any alphanumeric characters.. No restart of VS is required after changing this option :) – bugybunny – 2018-11-02T13:27:14.010

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