> One feature I've been wanting to see in Emacs for quite a while is > support for the new XRender extension for XFree86. This would allow us > to have antialiased fonts under X. Given how much time I spend working > in Emacs, this would be a big win, I think. > > I've added it to etc/TODO, but I am so interested in seeing this feature > that I am willing to ask the FSF to give my yearly donation of $100 for > this year to whoever implements this feature. It may not be a large > amount, but hopefully it will help motivate someone to do it. It shouldn't be too difficult from what I understand (but I don't understand much of Xlib programming). For what it's worth I have appended a quick-hack "anti-aliased fonts for XEmacs" patch posted to the XEmacs list a while back. Stefan