pretty emacs

[Neal Becker]

Marc Schwartz wrote:

> Neal Becker wrote:
>> 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...
>>>
>> 
>> Which emacs are you guys using?  The rawhide version?  The gnu svn?
> 
> 
> I am using 23 right from the gnu emacs cvs (they are not using svn, at
> least not yet anyway...)
> 
> 
> See this post for the scripts that I am using to build and run it:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-April/msg00470.html
> 
> 
> There is a wiki page here as well:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs
> 
> 

Thanks guys!

I like this:
emacs -fn 'DejaVu Sans Mono-12'