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Re: earn $100 and reduce the Emacs TODO list
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: earn $100 and reduce the Emacs TODO list |
Date: |
Tue, 07 May 2002 20:12:18 -0400 |
> One feature I've been wanting to see in Emacs for quite a while is
> support for the new XRender extension for XFree86. This would allow us
> to have antialiased fonts under X. Given how much time I spend working
> in Emacs, this would be a big win, I think.
>
> I've added it to etc/TODO, but I am so interested in seeing this feature
> that I am willing to ask the FSF to give my yearly donation of $100 for
> this year to whoever implements this feature. It may not be a large
> amount, but hopefully it will help motivate someone to do it.
It shouldn't be too difficult from what I understand (but I don't
understand much of Xlib programming). For what it's worth I have
appended a quick-hack "anti-aliased fonts for XEmacs" patch posted
to the XEmacs list a while back.
Stefan
xemacs-aa-render.patch
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