Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-16 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
Surely, it would be better to use a separate control input stream, stdctl (or nstdctl), for configuration. Are you talking about keep, for example, file descriptor 3 for control operations?

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-16 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 06:25:40PM +0200, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote: Surely, it would be better to use a separate control input stream, stdctl (or nstdctl), for configuration. Are you talking about keep, for example, file descriptor 3 for control operations? Yes.

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-13 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
Edgaras wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 09:28:33PM +0100, Nick wrote: Quoth Roberto E. Vargas Caballero: I also need this feature, but maybe could be done in other way. I talked about this with other persons of the list, and we liked let st be configured using the stdin of st, so you can do it

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-11 Thread Nick
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 08:27:55AM +0300, Edgaras wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 05:25:58AM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote: Noone is really using dmenu. It’s a bloated interface to text strings. Hopefully it will die soon. I think dmenu is doing it job pretty well. And I'm not sure I

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-11 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Somebody claiming to be sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: This patch (against tip) introduces an array of font names in the config instead FONT and allows to cycle through them with Ctrl-PgUp at runtime. I also need multiple fonts, but I find keeping several builds of st around works fine for me.

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-11 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:56:54 +0200 Stephen Paul Weber singpol...@singpolyma.net wrote: Somebody claiming to be sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: This patch (against tip) introduces an array of font names in the config instead FONT and allows to cycle through them with Ctrl-PgUp at

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-11 Thread Carlos Torres
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: Greetings. On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:56:54 +0200 Stephen Paul Weber singpol...@singpolyma.net wrote: Somebody claiming to be sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: This patch (against tip) introduces an array of font names in

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-11 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:04:23 +0200 Carlos Torres vlaadbr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Christoph Lohmann 2...@r-36.net wrote: Greetings. On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:56:54 +0200 Stephen Paul Weber singpol...@singpolyma.net wrote: Somebody claiming to be

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-11 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
Eugh. That isn't the way anything else is configured. It's a pretty weird interface. config.h, argv switches and potentially keybindings are reasonable ways to configure programs. stdin is just silly. St, like all others graphic terminal emualtors, receive escape sequences which configure it,

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-11 Thread Aurélien Aptel
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero k...@shike2.com wrote: St, like all others graphic terminal emualtors, receive escape sequences which configure it, change color, set tittle screen, set blink ..., so add new private sequences for things like chage font is not only no

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-11 Thread stanio
Hi, * Stephen Paul Weber singpol...@singpolyma.net [2012-10-11 15:56]: Somebody claiming to be sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: This patch (against tip) introduces an array of font names in the config instead FONT and allows to cycle through them with Ctrl-PgUp at runtime. I also need multiple

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-10 Thread Roberto E. Vargas Caballero
I missed this feature a lot when light conditions and distance to display change, often so with a notebook, even more when different displays plugged. Of course, tmux helps -- kill, start new st, attach to the right session --, but I like this approach more. I also need this feature, but

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-10 Thread Nick
Quoth Roberto E. Vargas Caballero: I also need this feature, but maybe could be done in other way. I talked about this with other persons of the list, and we liked let st be configured using the stdin of st, so you can do it something like: configurator | st And, for example, you

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-10 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 09:28:33PM +0100, Nick wrote: Quoth Roberto E. Vargas Caballero: I also need this feature, but maybe could be done in other way. I talked about this with other persons of the list, and we liked let st be configured using the stdin of st, so you can do it something

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-10 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:25:58 +0200 Roberto E. Vargas Caballero k...@shike2.com wrote: I missed this feature a lot when light conditions and distance to display change, often so with a notebook, even more when different displays plugged. Of course, tmux helps -- kill, start new

Re: [dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-10 Thread Edgaras
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 09:28:33PM +0100, Nick wrote: Quoth Roberto E. Vargas Caballero: I also need this feature, but maybe could be done in other way. I talked about this with other persons of the list, and we liked let st be configured using the stdin of st, so you can do it something

[dev] [st] toggle font

2012-10-09 Thread stanio
Hi, This patch (against tip) introduces an array of font names in the config instead FONT and allows to cycle through them with Ctrl-PgUp at runtime. I missed this feature a lot when light conditions and distance to display change, often so with a notebook, even more when different displays