From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs help from terminal Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 01:52:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87zgid4h85.fsf@dataswamp.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4223"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:2wClOz3BqoZX9zKohZ+T4u46UyM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 16 01:53:30 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 1o1cpG-0000qm-66 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 01:53:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59266 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1cpE-0007FW-Rz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:53:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1coe-0007FO-QX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:50234) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o1cod-0001G9-7a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o1cob-000AbF-9U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jun 2022 01:52:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no 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:137870 Archived-At: 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. 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 -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal