On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:58:59 -0500 farlies farlies@gmail.com wrote:
I've tried switching to gnu-emacs several times in the last 5 year, and invariably come crawling back to XEmacs, usually after spending fruitless hours trying to get fonts and other visual features to look acceptable in gnu-emacs (Linux). Have tried running both on the same system: bad mistake.
Was this with the x11 option? If so, it's probably worthwile experimenting in console with a fancy terminal like gnome-terminal and antialiased ttf fonts like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (even xterm does pretty well with ttf DejaVu Sans Mono and utf-8 nowadays). Of course, this is independent of fontification settings, however. I've never used its X11 mode personally but some screenshots suggest it is very crude.
An example of a session in utf-8 xterm with DejaVu Sans Mono truetype font, customized colors in ~/.Xdefaults and minimal fontification modification (a script helps to make parens less visible) is at http://mmondor.pulsar-zone.net/img_gallery/screenshots/lisp-iolib-test5.png
Thanks,