Hi Alan,

Thanks for taking the time to look at this.

The way I see it, this is analogous to the existing ns-antialias-text flag,
which is another rendering preference that can be changed system-wide, yet
is available within Emacs.
I would say that the use of these options is sometimes beneficial, based on
one's choice of fonts.
For example, if you use a bitmap font in Emacs, you would likely disable
anti-aliasing, but you wouldn't necessarily do it system-wide.

(I don't really know how to turn on thin smoothing system-wide, but that's
not the main argument)

As for Dr. Stallman's question: fortunately this is not necessary in
GNU/Linux, but on macOS with a non-HiDPI display I personally find the
difference significant.

Ben

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 01:20:26PM +0200, Ben Bonfil wrote:
> > Attached is a small patch that enables thin font smoothing on macOS, just
> > like in iTerm2.
> > It is toggled by a new variable called ns-use-thin-smoothing.
> >
> > Tested only on macOS Sierra (10.12.6)
>
> Hi, is there any reason this needs to be done within Emacs? As far as
> I can tell you should be able to set thin anti‐aliasing without
> needing a setting in Emacs.
> --
> Alan Third
>