compiling emacs 23 on f8

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 14:42:20 UTC 2008


Anders Karlsson wrote:

> * François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> [20080328
> 14:01]:
> [snip]
>> |
>> | You can find my emacs-23.0.60.1 svn srpm as of yesterday there as well.
>> |
>> | I suggest this in your startup:
>> | (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-9"))
>>
>> What for?
> 
> I guess because Emacs23 is compiled with xft support so you can have
> antialiased fonts. I suspect that the line suggested to be added makes
> DejaVu Sans Mono-9 (a TrueType font) available in the font selection
> menu.
> 
> HTH,
> 

Not sure if my last message made it here, the correct link is
http://nbecker.dyndns.org:8080/RPM




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