On 1/20/07, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xft anti-aliasing is incorporated into the version 23 unicode trunk. > > So it looks great on a hi-res LCD panel. Without xft, even using > Bitstream fonts, it was still pretty rough on the eyes. >
Humm, call me silly, but most of the time I do not like anti-aliased fonts: I tend to agree with http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq/entries/Blurred_fonts.html, where he says "characters look like having been dragged through mud" :-). > It also fully supports GTK widgets, which is great if you are using > GNOME, which I do. > But my .emacs gets rid of the toolbar and scroll bars on start-up (I find toolbars confusing things that take up precious screen space), and often work without the menubar (when I am doing familiar work). I use ion3 (http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/), which, together with wmii (and followed, at some distance, by fmwv), I find the most usable window managers, and thus the look of widgets is not that relevant to me. So, for most practical purposes (except for resizing with the mouse) I use emacs as if started with the -w command. (I know, I know, this looks like going backwards ... must be a mid-life involution crisis :-). > xft was added as a patch to version 22, but it was not very stable. > > Note that version 23 is in alpha status, so use at your own risk if you > decide to pursue this. 21 is still the current stable release version, > but 23 has been rock solid for me. > > I can provide you with a shell script to build it. Let me know. > Let me try with the debian packages, and if I have problems, I'll definitely start bugging you. Thanks a lot for your help! Best, R. > Best regards, > > Marc > > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 03:59 +0100, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > > Hi Marc, > > > > > > Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation! I'll give it a try. (But > > still, why emacs23? what is missing in v. 21 that you get in 23?). > > > > Best, > > > > R. > > > > On 1/19/07, Marc Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 16:09 +0100, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > I had problems with one of the packages ecb depends upon (semantic ?), > > > > and > > > > emacs-snapshot. IIRC it was a documented problem related to a bug in > > > > semantic > > > > (?); maybe it's been fixed now. But what does emacs-snapshot-gtk > > > > provide you > > > > now (besides the pretinness) that you'd miss with 21-4? > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > Ramon, > > > > > > Just a quick heads up on the ECB issue. > > > > > > I am using Emacs 23 from CVS and had to update ECB and the associated > > > packages to use this version of Emacs. I have emacs 23 installed and run > > > from a separate download folder, so that I do not overwrite the > > > installed stable version. > > > > > > I use the CEDET cedet-1.0pre3.tar.gz aggregate package from > > > http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ as well as the ECB cvs snap shot package > > > ecb.tar.gz from http://ecb.sourceforge.net/downloads.html. > > > > > > The CEDET package includes cogre, ede, eieio, semantic and speedbar. > > > > > > Extract these two files and then modify ~/.emacs with the following: > > > > > > ;; Load ECB > > > (setq semantic-load-turn-everything-on t) > > > (load-file "/PATH/TO/CEDET/cedet-1.0pre3/common/cedet.el") > > > > > > (add-to-list 'load-path "/PATH/TO/ECB/ecb-snap") > > > (require 'ecb) > > > > > > > > > And all seems well. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > Marc Schwartz > > > > > -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Statistical Computing Team Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) http://ligarto.org/rdiaz ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
