From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some observations about --with-cairo
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 16:11:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0766b15f-9784-05fc-a5cc-3c0b7319adaa@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tl7wmdw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 2017-06-04 22:03, David Kastrup wrote:
> Well, just out of interest, I compiled emacs using --with-cairo.
> Redraws are unusably slow and partly incorrect and font display is
> pretty bad.
>
> That being said,
> M-: (with-temp-file "/tmp/frame.pdf" (insert (x-export-frames)))
> as a screen dump is, well, interesting.
> I append a resulting file from using this in an Info buffer with images.
Beautiful!
Is anyone currently working on improving Cairo support? Is there a roadmap / task list somewhere?
> Also, one could copy&paste from the frames in such a manual, in contrast
> to actual raster screen dumps.
Indeed, except for the usual problem with indentation and spaces being lost.
Clément.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-24 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-04 20:03 Some observations about --with-cairo David Kastrup
2017-09-24 14:11 ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2017-09-25 12:51 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-09-25 14:12 ` Robert Pluim
2017-09-25 14:38 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-09-26 10:13 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-09-29 8:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
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