Re: unicode font-backend + tiling

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
> On Windows and Mac, we can't make it on.

Wouldn't one just not use "configure --enable-font-backend" on those systems?

> If someone would like to work on changing the default only for
> Unix/GNU-Linux and on providing a way to disable font-backend on such
> systems, please go ahead.

I was just thinking of something like this:


--- orig/src/emacs.c
+++ mod/src/emacs.c
@@ -1441,10 +1441,14 @@
     = argmatch (argv, argc, "-nl", "--no-loadup", 6, NULL, &skip_args);
 
 #ifdef USE_FONT_BACKEND
-  enable_font_backend = 0;
+  enable_font_backend = 1;
   if (argmatch (argv, argc, "-enable-font-backend", "--enable-font-backend",
 		4, NULL, &skip_args))
     enable_font_backend = 1;
+  else if (argmatch (argv, argc,
+		     "-disable-font-backend", "--disable-font-backend",
+		     4, NULL, &skip_args))
+    enable_font_backend = 0;
 #endif	/* USE_FONT_BACKEND */
 
 #ifdef HAVE_X_WINDOWS
@@ -1850,6 +1854,7 @@
   { "-no-multibyte", "--no-multibyte", 80, 0 },
   { "-nl", "--no-loadup", 70, 0 },
   { "-enable-font-backend", "--enable-font-backend", 65, 0 },
+  { "-disable-font-backend", "--disable-font-backend", 65, 0 },
   /* -d must come last before the options handled in startup.el.  */
   { "-d", "--display", 60, 1 },
   { "-display", 0, 60, 1 },


-Miles
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