From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Adkins Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Nice fonts for emacs 22 GTK on Linux ? Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:21:28 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <065e64c3-28bf-40ae-b3d6-20e5b16c684c@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <873as5u2b7.fsf@t22.Belkin> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202402443 25056 80.91.229.12 (7 Feb 2008 16:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 07 17:41:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JN9o7-0007FN-O0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:41:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JN9nf-000579-88 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:40:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 58 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.209.204.112 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1202401289 20333 127.0.0.1 (7 Feb 2008 16:21:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:21:29 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.209.204.112; posting-account=Uust-woAAAAfaTc8iUxK0_NIe578kqTZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155927 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51304 Archived-At: On Feb 6, 6:38 pm, Nick Roberts wrote: > > I used this branch: > > > > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonym...@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co -r emacs-unicode-2 emacs > > > > > > Details here: > > > >http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs > > If you check that link it points out that emacs-unicode-2 has recently been > merged to the trunk and that > > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonym...@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co emacs > > should be enough now. > > To update from the trunk, instead ofemacs-unicode-2, just do > > cvs update -A > > as further Unicode development will happen there. > > -- > Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob Thanks guys! I don't know how I got the impression that the emacss22 package was all I needed - what a frustrating experience. By the way, if someone could edit that wiki page to make it more clear, it might be helpful. As I explained in my blog post: http://lojic.com/blog/2008/02/07/nice-fonts-for-gnu-emacs-on-ubuntu-linux/ After hours of Googling, I became too hasty, and when I read the statement: "Note: Since the emacs-unicode-2 branch which had the xft support is merged into trunk, the current page is obsolete." I thought it applied to the entire wiki page even though the correct solution immediately follows that statement. It was my mistake, but it may happen to others also. How about simply removing the obsolete information, or moving it to an archived page? Also, can this information be put on the main emacs page?: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ I'm not sure making people work so hard to get nice fonts on emacs is such a good idea :( One last question. How bleeding edge is 23.0.60.2 ? For my current research purposes, it's not a problem, but if I do end up switching and relying on emacs for my day-to-day editing needs, is it fairly stable? Thanks, Brian Adkins