How to change line spacing in Visual Studio 2019?

Question

In Visual Studio 2017, I reduced line spacing to fit more code on the screen.

Today I downloaded Visual Studio 2019, however, I forgot how to change line spacing. I searched the options menu, installed Productivity Power Tools, Googled for answers, reviewed all my installed extensions but still cannot find how to reduce the space between lines.

Valle

best font for that using the same size 10, are Droid Sans Mono; it reserves comment blocks slight cleaner without line gaps; – Reichel

Answer 1

There's a feature request to implement this in Visual Studio 2019. It seems to be in their backlog but no target release date nor status have been provided.

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/896879/allow-users-to-set-line-height.html

In the meantime, maybe you could try to find a different Font to better achieve the desired results.

Or try this extension: LinePress

Duong

Yay! Apr 2021, comment in linked thread mentions a release in an upcoming version of Visual Studio. – Murcia

And the feature is now present in VS 2022 (Preview) under "Text Editor" ➝ "General" ➝ Group "Display" ➝ "Line spacing" – Highsounding

Answer 2

For VS 2015/2017/2019

Check out the LinePress extension available on the VS Marketplace. After installing it, just go to the Tools menu > Options > LinePress > Options and there you can change the line height of the text editor to your liking.

For VS 2022

There's a built-in setting for that, just open the Tools menu > Options > Text Editor > General and look for a setting called Line Spacing, change its value to one of your liking.

Ivan

For VS2022 it is also possible to select more fine-grained line spacing, at least according to this comment. – Baisden