From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gilaras Drakeson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updating the tour for Xft Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:54:31 -0400 Message-ID: <86iqh8hh60.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249062902 1796 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2009 17:55:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:55:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 31 19:54:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MWwJf-0000L4-MX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:54:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60967 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWwJf-0008Jh-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWwJa-0008JY-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:54:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWwJV-0008IX-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:54:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46129 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWwJV-0008IU-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42817 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWwJU-0002EG-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MWwJP-0004v7-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:54:36 +0000 Original-Received: from 69-196-135-129.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.135.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:54:35 +0000 Original-Received: from gilaras by 69-196-135-129.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:54:35 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-135-129.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P1MKIdCq5bC/m7a3VqdqTO7M1uY= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:113471 Archived-At: Hi, >> Now we have nice anti-aliased fonts with 23.1, can we update the tour >> (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/) so that it shows off this >> nice new visual feature? > >> The tour is a great way of showing off Emacs' features and visual >> features have a massive impact, so this seems like a logical thing >> to do. > > I agree that the tour should be updated to reflect what the user would > see in Emacs-23. Any volunteer? Is there a [wrapper] function to "import" a rectangular region of the current frame with the rectangle expressed in terms of (row,col)s, and create an image out of it? -- Gilaras