Hi

Is there support for anti-aliased fonts in emacs? I installed emacs a
few days ago and tried to use it but found that the fonts were
rendered poorly. Some searching of the net revealed that I had to get
a special snapshot installed (apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk) to
get anti-aliased fonts. I find this surprising considering that it's
2008 and every other application I use supports anti-aliased fonts.

"sashang@gmail.com" gmail.com> writes:

What you are after has been introduced only in the CVS branch of
emacs. I run the CVS version daily and its very stable most of the
time. The emacs-snapshot is a recent snapshot of the CVS head and works
well. None of the stable e.g. released versions of emacs prior to the 23
CVS branch have anti-aliased font support.

The new CVS version has a lot of nice new enhancements that are really
catching emacs up to what most would expect from the worlds greatest
editor, including -

On Sep 2, 2008, at 7:07 PM, sashang@gmail.com wrote:

While it is 2008, the emacs version which comes with Debian Etch is
21.4, which is quite old. Emacs 21 was first released in 2001, and the
first version of Emacs 22 was in 2007.

I don't use Linux anymore, but I'd expect that recent Emacs packages
support AA fine.

Long story short, this is a Debian problem, not an Emacs problem.

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Am 03.09.2008 um 19:10 schrieb Rupert Swarbrick:

These stable versions do not support font anti-aliasing. GTK can
produce nice menus, but it's recent GNU Emacs 23.0.60 (and before
23.0.50) from CVS that have the Xft patch incorporated and show
"strange" looking, i.e., anti-aliased text in the windows, buffers,
echo areas.

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On Sep 3, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Rupert Swarbrick wrote:

I wasn't attacking. I'm a longtime Debian user, and a former Debian
developer. The problem of balancing stability vs. recent software is
not a new one, and should be well-known to any Debian user.

Ian Eure digg.com> writes:

I don't use Linux anymore, but I'd expect that recent
Emacs packages support AA fine.

Just out of curiosity... what do you use?

In any case, I have been compiling Emacs from CVS on various
flavors of GNU/Linux for at least a couple of years now. On
a very few occasions I have had a problem, but in every case
I just don't do `make install' and wait a few days and the
problem gets fixed. By and large it does work with no
problems. I don't know how easy it is to compile Emacs on
MS Windows, but Lennart Borgman's EmacsW32 package is
pre-compiled and is a version 23 compile.

I have had problems attempting to compile on GNU/Hurd (the
one and only reason I am not using Hurd right now: no Emacs
= I don't use it) and some BSD variants, though I haven't
tried that hard on BSD.

On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Evans Winner wrote:

Mac OS X. Aquamacs and Carbon Emacs both support antialiased fonts.

dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:

Dan Espen MORE.mk.SPAMtelcordia.com> writes: