On Thursday October 11 2018 01:37:51 Richard L. Hamilton wrote:

>https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/issues/751
>
>I have no idea if it's really the same underlying cause to the KDE4 graphics 
>issues vs MacVim, but they both are not handling display updating correctly 
>from the looks of it.

It does sound likely, and one has to hope Apple didn't introduce a whole bunch 
of incompatibilities. It could be interesting to see if Qt4 has a similar 
option to avoid CoreText rendering.
FWIW, Qt5 does since 5.7 or so; it can use Freetype+FontConfig. I patched that 
code a bit so it becomes possible to set this as the default text renderer 
without tweaking each and every command line, and have been using it all the 
time. FreeType+Infinality does a better rendering job, and text now looks the 
same on Mac and under X11 (in Qt5 apps).

BTW, has this been reported to them (and did they respond with anything other 
than "works as intended" or "please install the latest release")?

R.

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