On 22/02/2013 17:37 +0400, Ken Brown wrote: > On 2/22/2013 3:47 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> At the moment emacs-X11 has a higher priority than emacs-w32. All things >> considered, giving emacs-w32 priority over emacs-X11 seems to be more >> generally >> useful on Cygwin than the other way around. > > It's hard to know what people's preferences will be. I gave emacs-X11 > the highest priority for two reasons: > > * It's been the only GUI version of emacs on Cygwin for many years, so > making it the default doesn't change what people are used to. > > * It's the build you get by default if you don't override it with > configure options. > > Maybe I should supply a script that lets users easily change the > priority, something like the scripts set-gcc-default-*.sh that Dave > Korn provided for gcc. > > Ken
For me, there's one important advantage of emacs-w32 over X11 version: font rendering. In emacs-w32 it is as good as in mintty (I use "partial" smoothing in mintty, because ClearType renders fonts too bold), while in X11 fonts are blurred even with anti-aliasing (not much, but annoying). Maybe I just did not configure it properly. I think I'll continue to use emacs in mintty, but for rare cases (pdf, html with necessary images) it's a pleasure to have emacs-w32. That probably does not have more importance than the reasons you stated, but for some people it can be crucial. BTW, if someone knows how to get under X the quality of rendering comparable to mintty, please respond. Filipp -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
