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: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:52:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87ilp12m01.fsf@logand.com> References: <877d5jgxa8.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87o7yv1fbs.fsf@web.de> <87v8t2j21n.fsf@dataswamp.org> <8735g69ul9.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87fsk57tgb.fsf@logand.com> <87zgid66ri.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87mted338i.fsf@logand.com> <87zgid4h85.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="28389"; 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 Thu Jun 16 07:53:16 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 1o1iRQ-00078k-GB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:53:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43264 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1iRP-0008T5-Af for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 01:53:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35288) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1iQl-0008NR-Ah for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 01:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from logand.com ([37.48.87.44]:37590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1iQj-0001bb-U4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 01:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: by logand.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E042919F002; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:52:31 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: emacs 27.2 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I) In-Reply-To: <87zgid4h85.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:137875 Archived-At: On Thu 16 Jun 2022 at 01:52, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Tomas Hlavaty wrote: > >>>> (defun console-font (x) >>>> (interactive "sfont: ") >>>> (suspend-emacs (format "setfont %s;fg" x)) >>>> (message (format "font is %s" x))) >>> >>> No need to suspend anything to change the font of the Linux >>> VT, just eval for example >>> >>> (shell-command "sudo setfont Lat7-TerminusBold16") ; B) >> >> this requires sudo >> >> without sudo, it works only if emacs is suspended > > Incorrect, that was a trap I set for you, actually they (the > sudo) are not needed at all. and you fell for it! > BTW I learned that method when I catched wild animals with my > bare hands - for survival. how old are you? > I confirm here and now that > > (shell-command "setfont Lat7-TerminusBold16") > (shell-command "setfont matrix.fnt") > > works great. > > $ ls -l /bin/setfont > -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 60112 2020-10-11 12:13 /bin/setfont as I said, it does not work without sudo on my system: $ ls -l $(readlink -f $(which setfont)) -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 54512 Jan 1 1970 /nix/store/n0i1sx9vir7r8gcxp8559ii3vzbgxihz-kbd-2.4.0/bin/setfont