On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 03:25:52PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 01:11:30AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > There is quite a bit of difference in how traditional X11 bitmap fonts > > and freetype fonts are selected and rendered > > (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XFontTypes gives a > > reasonable summation) but the main thing is that from the API level > > they are not interchangeable. XTerm has specific code to handle > > rendering of fonts selected via -fn (server bitmap) vs -fa (client > > rendered scalable). I don't believe that xvile has handling for the > > latter, so is limited to traditional server provided bitmap fonts. > > agreed - the APIs are very different. There was no _technical_ reason > that they had to be incompatible... > > Having both in xterm makes it complicated. If/when I find time to > do TrueType for xvile, it'll be one or the other at configure/make > time. > That would be OK, what will distributions/repositories do though?
> However, I mostly use vile in xterm, and after _that_, winvile. > I mostly use vile in a terminal, it's just that *occasionally* (such as marking rectangular areas with the mouse) xvile is very handy. -- Chris Green
