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I often trigger pinch-to-zoom accidentally and find it a very distracting interruption. Is there a way to disable it? Even after practicing the gesture to recover the zoom, I still have a hard time remembering where I was focused before I was zoomed in and out, and find myself searching around to regain my place. (An aside for perhaps another ticket, though I don't have a solution: The "recovery" gesture (45-degree rotation to restore the earlier zoom level) is also a little strange and I don't think it's plausibly discoverable when zoom "happens" to a new user. I only found out about it in the "what's new" for Neon, which is itself the only documentation I was able to find, and this was after weeks of occasionally getting stung and recovering manually (to approximately the same zoom) with cmd-+/-.)
I asked about this on stackoverflow, and user greg-449 commented: "Looking at the source code (initializeZoomGestures in org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractTextEditor) there does not appear to be any way to disable this."
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One workaround is to disable the "pinch to zoom" feature in OSX globally in the Trackpad Settings.