Re: antialiasing for emacs

[Chris Gray]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Miles Bader wrote:
> [...description of the bug...]
> 
> I guess this must be one of the small bugs you were talking
> about... :-)

Yep.  It happens when I start gnus too.  I really don't know why, and
these "async errors" seem very hard to debug.

>> [1] The slowness is because I can't trust the attributes of a face
>> not to change.  If there was a different face for the cursor than
>> the rest of the text (instead of simply changing the GC), the story
>> would be different.
> 
> I'm confused by this -- isn't there a separate face for the cursor
> (`cursor')?

Well if there is, it's not getting used.  You'll notice in xterm.c,
there is a function called x_set_cursor_gc, which pretty much ignores
the face information.

Cheers,
Chris