From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rupert Swarbrick Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: anti-aliased fonts Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:10:22 +0100 Organization: albasani.net Message-ID: References: <57f3ff42-1555-487a-b521-4a38429a53fc@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220463910 7184 80.91.229.12 (3 Sep 2008 17:45:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:45:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 03 19:46:05 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 1KawNO-00078P-I1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:42:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KawMP-0005gE-3y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:41:41 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 68 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net ttGVIiXeLKSvSHhOzxtI6oWjeSWbEkiuYqdV4eEgKagztpse4mZA+2l2pa6bD0YYbsDoaTOiYTJBk0QDWHQsamPMNb0gYHSz02/osznKwXrDoC4z1I1j/rVWewb2rDGC Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:10:23 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: fvxi0vqr9/Ndz9QhwwcHiy+ErJRiTkPCCcIKtTS9k0w= Cancel-Lock: sha1:KoDTfOH9U4SebObSYHBEW37E8Ag= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76BukZsK+kNKCpM8o4F/zal/aDNILb5oZD65xNTDj10= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161892 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:57234 Archived-At: --==-=-= Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" --=-=-= Ian Eure writes: > While it is 2008, the emacs version which comes with Debian Etch is > 21.4, which is quite old. Emacs 21 was first released in 2001, and the > first version of Emacs 22 was in 2007. > > I don't use Linux anymore, but I'd expect that recent Emacs packages > support AA fine. > > Long story short, this is a Debian problem, not an Emacs problem. ... as a long-time debian user, I feel I should just cut in with a knee-jerk defence: The debian developers are currently in the process of refining and polishing a new release, Lenny. I personally use debian unstable, which currently looks something like how Lenny will and "apt-cache show emacs" gives the output below. Emacs will shortly be 22.2+2-3 (!) in Debian. Rupert --=-=-= Content-Disposition: inline Package: emacs Priority: optional Section: editors Installed-Size: 48 Maintainer: Rob Browning Architecture: all Source: emacs22 Version: 22.2+2-3 Provides: editor, emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader Depends: emacs22 | emacs22-gtk | emacs22-nox Filename: pool/main/e/emacs22/emacs_22.2+2-3_all.deb Size: 19564 MD5sum: d5f21152b0b334a3f6fe7ba622d7f602 SHA1: 7bebebf5df8cc0a20ef4ce9dd1dab481e29a877f SHA256: 52727b53d384248e00f681079804b15428bf0df49854bddcbada2e9bd49c55db Description: The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage) GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. This is a metapackage which will always depend on the latest Emacs release. Tag: devel::editor, role::dummy, role::metapackage, special::meta, suite::emacs, suite::gnu, use::editing --=-=-=-- --==-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQECAAYFAki+xP4ACgkQRtd/pJbYVoa68gP+LTi+r5NEQAYoTV5yCfxJlZpf Oyo/xfQkBEk+GAxToHv15LvIO3bfojDtar5JYO6FPicyLRJchsO5omztLsX4YK7d rNg3TRINNo31MYh8EwgPsc7HnC/tVa1vqB4RbGhT04tbKV6PF5wNn9x3sJUN1b9D YOvHmbplf63+6PP6AKM= =8BrZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==-=-=--