On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Helmut Eller wrote:
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:37:07 +0200 From: Helmut Eller heller@common-lisp.net To: slime-devel@common-lisp.net Subject: Re: [slime-devel] Emacs 23 and slow compilation output
- Carlos Konstanski [2009-08-11 17:39+0200] writes:
Just a thought... maybe try compiling emacs 23 without xft support (if that is an option on a Mac).
Running Emacs in a terminal with emacs -nw is probably easier than recompiling.
You lose antialiasing; you gain font control via ~/.Xdefaults, and probably much faster font rendering.
I think .Xdefaults also works with true-type fonts e.g.: Emacs.Font: DejaVu Sans Mono-10
Helmut
I failed to mention that I have been fighting with a particular font in emacs 23: the lisp machine font. It is not a true type font. It never shows up in the usual GTK or QT font selector widgets. xfontsel is the only gui font chosser tool that recognizes it. I just went back to the web page (http://www.eurogaran.com/downloads/lispmfont/) and tried again. Using these instructions, I got it to work even with xft!
(create-fontset-from-fontset-spec "-lispm-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-lispm, ascii:-lispm-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, latin-iso8859-1:-lispm-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, latin-iso8859-15:-lispm-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")
(set-default-font "fontset-lispm")
Carlos