Index: src/main/groovy/ui/ConsoleView.groovy
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--- src/main/groovy/ui/ConsoleView.groovy	(revision 15309)
+++ src/main/groovy/ui/ConsoleView.groovy	(working copy)
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@
 controller.showToolbarAction = showToolbarAction
 
 // some more UI linkage
+controller.outputArea.addComponentListener(controller)
+controller.inputArea.addComponentListener(controller)
 controller.outputArea.addHyperlinkListener(controller)
 controller.inputArea.addCaretListener(controller)
 controller.inputArea.document.addDocumentListener({ controller.setDirty(true) } as DocumentListener)
Index: src/main/groovy/ui/Console.groovy
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--- src/main/groovy/ui/Console.groovy	(revision 15309)
+++ src/main/groovy/ui/Console.groovy	(working copy)
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 import java.awt.Toolkit
 import java.awt.Window
 import java.awt.event.ActionEvent
+import java.awt.event.ComponentEvent
+import java.awt.event.ComponentListener
 import java.util.prefs.Preferences
 import javax.swing.*
 import javax.swing.event.CaretEvent
@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@
  * @author Alan Green more features: history, System.out capture, bind result to _
  * @author Guillaume Laforge, stacktrace hyperlinking to the current script line
  */
-class Console implements CaretListener, HyperlinkListener {
+class Console implements CaretListener, HyperlinkListener, ComponentListener {
 
     static final String DEFAULT_SCRIPT_NAME_START = "ConsoleScript"
 
@@ -639,11 +641,7 @@
     }
 
     void largerFont(EventObject evt = null) {
-        if (inputArea.font.size > 40) return
-        // don't worry, the fonts won't be changed to monospaced face, the styles will only derive from this
-        def newFont = new Font('Monospaced', Font.PLAIN, inputArea.font.size + 2)
-        inputArea.font = newFont
-        outputArea.font = newFont
+        updateFontSize(inputArea.font.size + 2)
     }
 
     static boolean notifySystemOut(String str) {
@@ -849,11 +847,8 @@
     }
 
     void smallerFont(EventObject evt = null){
-        if (inputArea.font.size < 5) return
-        // don't worry, the fonts won't be changed to monospaced face, the styles will only derive from this
-        def newFont = new Font('Monospaced', Font.PLAIN, inputArea.font.size - 2)
-        inputArea.font = newFont
-        outputArea.font = newFont
+        updateFontSize(inputArea.font.size - 2)
+
     }
 
     void updateTitle() {
@@ -866,6 +861,21 @@
         }
     }
 
+    private updateFontSize(newFontSize) {
+        if (newFontSize > 40) {
+            newFontSize = 40
+        } else if (newFontSize < 4) {
+            newFontSize = 4
+        }
+        
+        prefs.putInt("fontSize", newFontSize)
+
+        // don't worry, the fonts won't be changed to monospaced face, the styles will only derive from this
+        def newFont = new Font('Monospaced', Font.PLAIN, newFontSize)
+        inputArea.font = newFont
+        outputArea.font = newFont
+    }
+
     void invokeTextAction(evt, closure) {
         def source = evt.getSource()
         if (source != null) {
@@ -944,4 +954,18 @@
             editor.moveCaretPosition(newlineAfter)
         }
     }
+
+
+    void componentHidden(ComponentEvent e) { }
+
+    void componentMoved(ComponentEvent e) { }
+
+    void componentResized(ComponentEvent e) {
+        def component = e.getComponent()
+        prefs.putInt("${component.name}Width", component.width)
+        prefs.putInt("${component.name}Height", component.height)
+    }
+
+    public void componentShown(ComponentEvent e) { }
+
 }
Index: src/main/groovy/ui/view/BasicContentPane.groovy
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--- src/main/groovy/ui/view/BasicContentPane.groovy	(revision 15309)
+++ src/main/groovy/ui/view/BasicContentPane.groovy	(working copy)
@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
 package groovy.ui.view
 
 import groovy.ui.ConsoleTextEditor
+import groovy.ui.Console
 import java.awt.*
 import java.awt.image.BufferedImage
 import static javax.swing.JSplitPane.VERTICAL_SPLIT
 import javax.swing.text.Style
 import javax.swing.text.StyleContext
 import javax.swing.text.StyledDocument
+import java.util.prefs.Preferences
 
+
+def prefs = Preferences.userNodeForPackage(Console)
+
+
 splitPane = splitPane(resizeWeight: 0.50F,
     orientation: VERTICAL_SPLIT)
 {
@@ -15,9 +21,10 @@
     scrollPane(border:emptyBorder(0)) {
         outputArea = textPane(
             editable: false,
+            name: "outputArea",
             contentType: "text/html",
             background: new Color(255,255,218),
-            font:new Font("Monospaced", Font.PLAIN, 12),
+            font:new Font("Monospaced", Font.PLAIN, prefs.getInt("fontSize", 12)),
             border:emptyBorder(4)
         )
     }
@@ -28,7 +35,7 @@
 // attach ctrl-enter to input area
 // need to wrap in actions to keep it from being added as a component
 actions {
-    container(inputArea, font:new Font("Monospaced", Font.PLAIN, 12), border:emptyBorder(4)) {
+    container(inputArea, name: "inputArea", font:new Font("Monospaced", Font.PLAIN, prefs.getInt("fontSize", 12)), border:emptyBorder(4)) {
         action(runAction)
         action(runSelectionAction)
     }
@@ -77,10 +84,14 @@
 // this is a good enough solution, there are margins and scrollbars and such to worry about for 80x12x2
 Graphics g = GraphicsEnvironment.localGraphicsEnvironment.createGraphics (new BufferedImage(100, 100, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB))
 FontMetrics fm = g.getFontMetrics(outputArea.font)
+
 outputArea.preferredSize = [
-    fm.charWidth(0x77) * 81,
-    (fm.getHeight() + fm.leading) * 12] as Dimension
+    prefs.getInt("outputAreaWidth", fm.charWidth(0x77) * 81),
+    prefs.getInt("outputAreaHeight", (fm.getHeight() + fm.leading) * 12)
+] as Dimension
 
 //inputArea.setFont(outputArea.font)
-inputEditor.preferredSize = outputArea.preferredSize
-
+inputEditor.preferredSize = [
+    prefs.getInt("inputAreaWidth", fm.charWidth(0x77) * 81),
+    prefs.getInt("inputAreaHeight", (fm.getHeight() + fm.leading) * 12)
+] as Dimension