wmperry(a)aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes: > > > Because so much is changing in the 21.2 stuff, I am going to > > > initially be working off of 21.1.9. When I get back to the > > > 'free time' hacking I want to move it up to 21.2 and maybe even > > > do the 'real' port to use Gtk canvas and friends to do the > > > redisplay. That would get you anti-aliased text, > > > > The canvas idea is cool, but it'll never work. Canvas is way too > > slow for handling the redisplay of an editor. What you'd have to > > do is handle events and use Gdk/X primitives (preferably Gdk only > > if you desire portability) to draw to the screen. > > > > This was in fact confirmed by Owen Taylor in Japan a year ago. > > I keep hoping that it will get fast enough. :) Not in the near future -- the canvas is really slow, especially so when you turn on anti-aliasing. The idea of using canvas to implement the XEmacs editing window really sounds like a cool hack, but it shouldn't be confused with reality.

Sprinkle IMHO's as you see fit. :-)