pretty emacs

[Marc Schwartz]

Jack Tanner wrote:
> Neal Becker <ndbecker2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> I've been building xemacs with --xft, because it looks SO much nicer. 
>> Unfortunately, it's also a little buggy.  Mainly, it is slow.
> 
> I just finished an --with-xft build, since the error that broke the build
> yesterday got fixed. Wow, what a difference! Haven't noticed any particular bugs
> or slowdowns (so far, at least).
> 
> Favorite sexp of the day:
> 
> (setq initial-frame-alist
>       '((font . "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-8")
> ))
> 
> Here's to a quick merge of the unicode branch and a release speedier than 22...

Indeed!

Emacs with gtk2/xft is a thing of beauty...  :-)

I had actually tried XEmacs with the xft patch some time ago, but it 
crashed rather frequently and usually at the most inopportune times 
(thanks to Mr. Murphy...).

Regards,

Marc