Can still go better... [LWN.net]

Can still go better...

Posted Nov 2, 2006 11:21 UTC (Thu) by phgrenet (guest, #5979)
Parent article: Pre-testing Emacs 22

Looks like it Emacs still doesn't support anti-alias fonts like Bitstream Vera fonts... I love Emacs but this is really a shame.

I use to use Emacs very intensively for years but not anymore. I discovered Eclipse a few years ago and now use it for almost everything related to programming. Eclipse shines for Java programming (it is light-years ahead of Emacs for this) and is getting increasingly good for C++ and other languages like Python. Moreover, Eclipse is designed ot be extensible with the same spirit as Emacs, i.e. everyone can customize it to make its own Eclipse. Eclipse is the new Emacs... Too bad it is not written in Lisp.

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Posted Nov 2, 2006 16:54 UTC (Thu) by charris (guest, #13263) [Link] (1 responses)

Looks like it Emacs still doesn't support anti-alias fonts like Bitstream Vera fonts... I love Emacs but this is really a shame.

That is the one single reason that prompted me to switch to gvim after using emacs for several years. I *hates* ugly fonts.

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Posted Nov 4, 2006 13:29 UTC (Sat) by akapoor (guest, #25351) [Link]

Check out the _latest_ emacs incarnation i.e. with the emacs-unicode-2 branch. It supports anti-aliased-fonts. More info is available here:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs

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Posted Nov 2, 2006 22:16 UTC (Thu) by captrb (guest, #2291) [Link] (1 responses)

I also use Eclipse a great deal, but I *must* use emacs for serious source editing. I hit F5 (refresh files) a thousand times a day. There was a plugin that connected Emacs to Eclipse using beanshell and JDE, but it is not compatible with the latest Eclipse.

About the fonts, I started using JMK fonts in Emacs and though they are not anti-aliased, they did improve the appearance considerably.

alias emacs='emacs-snapshot-gtk -fn -jmk-neep-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 -bg white -fg black'

p.s. i always edit my .emacs using VIM :-)

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Posted Nov 3, 2006 5:07 UTC (Fri) by RelentlessWeevilHowl (guest, #5682) [Link]

> About the fonts, I started using JMK fonts in Emacs and though they are not
> anti-aliased, they did improve the appearance considerably.

Note that Debian's xfonts-jmk package includes ISO-10646-1 variants for 6x13, 8x15 and 10x20. This was done by glomming the similarly sized ISO-10646-1 "misc" fonts onto the original definitions. (The changelog also mentions some other tweaks.)