pretty emacs

[Neal Becker]

Marc Schwartz wrote:

> Leo wrote:
>> ----- Marc Schwartz (2007-04-25) wrote:-----
>> 
>>> I don't use w3m so I cannot attest to the problem
>> 
>> Start Emacs with 'emacs -Q -fn "monospace:pixelsize=16" and then 'C-u 3 2
>> M-x hanoi'. Have you seen the screen flickering in Emacs 22 with XFT?
>> i.e. if there is no such problem I will second enable XFT by default ;)
> 
> No flickering in 23.  I have not used 22 in some time however, but I
> have no recollection of flickering with it.
> 
> FWIW, here is my script to build 23 from CVS. Note that I build and use
> it locally, so as to not overwrite the current FC6 stable version. Hence
> the use of the lisp path configure option, etc.
> 
> # watch for line wrap here
> 
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co -r
> emacs-unicode-2 emacs
> 
> 
> cd emacs
> 
> 
> # Watch for line wrap here
> 
> ./configure --enable-locallisppath=/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --with-gtk
> --with-xft --enable-font-backend
> 
> 
> make bootstrap
> 
> make
> 
> 
> Then what I do is to create a script called emacs.xft and put it into
> ~/bin.  This contains:
> 
> # Watch for line wrap here
> 
> /PATH_TO/emacs/src/emacs --enable-font-backend -fn 'Bitstream Vera Sans
> Mono' $@
> 
> 
> I then set my default text editor, etc. to this script.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
> 
> 
> 

Thanks, but build fails here on fc6 x86_64:
font.o: In function `Ffont_drive_otf':
/home/nbecker/emacs/src/font.c:3425: undefined reference to `check_otf_features'