Re: Emacs help from terminal

[Emanuel Berg]

Tomas Hlavaty wrote:

>> 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

Gramps, you're not looking closely, maybe you need new
glasses? Compare the permissions and the reason it doesn't
work for is apparent.

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