From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tomas Hlavaty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs help from terminal Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:00:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87fsk57tgb.fsf@logand.com> References: <877d5jgxa8.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87o7yv1fbs.fsf@web.de> <87v8t2j21n.fsf@dataswamp.org> <8735g69ul9.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39737"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Emanuel Berg , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 15 19:10:03 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o1WWo-000A49-Bc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:10:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49892 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1WWn-00081r-9j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:10:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60194) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1WNg-000839-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:00:36 -0400 Original-Received: from logand.com ([37.48.87.44]:33320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1WNd-00043L-7x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:00:34 -0400 Original-Received: by logand.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 307D019F001; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:00:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: emacs 27.2 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I) In-Reply-To: <8735g69ul9.fsf@dataswamp.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=37.48.87.44; envelope-from=tom@logand.com; helo=logand.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137866 Archived-At: On Wed 15 Jun 2022 at 10:52, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Jean Louis wrote: >> Of course that suspending will only work in shell which does have job >> control. > > And in what shells will that be useful? in any shell that supports job control for example for running interactive or gui programs on the console: see framebuffer-fbpdf function https://logand.com/sw/emacs-framebuffer/file/emacs-framebuffer.el.html#l654 see framebuffer-fbmpv function https://logand.com/sw/emacs-framebuffer/file/emacs-framebuffer.el.html#l667 or changing console font: (defun console-font (x) (interactive "sfont: ") (suspend-emacs (format "setfont %s;fg" x)) (message (format "font is %s" x)))