From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: VanL Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 26.3, 28; Set Default Font... CMU Typewriter Text Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 02:31:16 +1100 Organization: BMF Prizefighter 'President' Trump 2020 Keep America Great =?utf-8?B?yZnJmTBA?= Ultimat Fighting Cybr Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="23541"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (berkeley-unix) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:sLxR3Euq0pnUcQ6r7O4XGeZLmVI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 27 16:32:38 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iw6NS-00066F-2G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:32:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46852 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iw6NR-0002NN-6J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:32:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48024) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iw6Ml-0002Kt-Uv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:31:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iw6Mk-0005xl-Vy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:31:55 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:59390) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iw6Mk-0005wG-PQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:31:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iw6Mi-0005Ew-Rs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:31:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122299 Archived-At: Robert Pluim writes: > OK, but that has nothing to do with FontBackend. If the default font > is not to your liking, you can change it easily enough. >From what I can tell, the Cairo and Harbuzz parts in the Emacs has something to do with FontBackend.   They are preferred to xft, maybe. > The delay I think is inevitable when Emacs has to search through lots > of fonts. OK, but where are those loops in the source code?   And can the initial start phase preload the fonts in memory?   The fonts reside at the X server and client ends.   Why the busy network transfer? -- VL "The number two was particularly ugly." -Donald E. Knuth