On Friday 21 January 2005 14:40, Enrico Scholz wrote: > peter.backlund@xxxxxxx (Peter Backlund) writes: > >> emacs-21.3-20 > > ... > > Any news on the Gtk Emacs front? > > I would not spend much energy on such a port. A Gtk port means AA > fonts which are really a bad choice for text based applications. > Current (X)Emacs have a startup-time <1 second so that it can be used > as $EDITOR. With Gtk I fear, that this will be somewhere around 5-10 > seconds. I am using the packages from http://people.redhat.com/petersen/emacs without any problems. Actually it has been a pleasant surprise as it works, it looks nice, etc... I don't notice any difference in the startup time from the previous frontend. I also feel a little bit guilty since I should have reported this directly to the packager but since it works there isn't nothing to complain... ;-) > Enrico -- José Abílio
