> > 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. :)