Re: anti-aliased fonts

[Rupert Swarbrick]

Ian Eure <ian@digg.com> writes:

> While it is 2008, the emacs version which comes with Debian Etch is
> 21.4, which is quite old. Emacs 21 was first released in 2001, and the
> first version of Emacs 22 was in 2007.
>
> I don't use Linux anymore, but I'd expect that recent Emacs packages
> support AA fine.
>
> Long story short, this is a Debian problem, not an Emacs problem.

... as a long-time debian user, I feel I should just cut in with a
knee-jerk defence: The debian developers are currently in the process of
refining and polishing a new release, Lenny.

I personally use debian unstable, which currently looks something like
how Lenny will and "apt-cache show emacs" gives the output below. Emacs
will shortly be 22.2+2-3 (!) in Debian.

Rupert


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Priority: optional
Section: editors
Installed-Size: 48
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Architecture: all
Source: emacs22
Version: 22.2+2-3
Provides: editor, emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader
Depends: emacs22 | emacs22-gtk | emacs22-nox
Filename: pool/main/e/emacs22/emacs_22.2+2-3_all.deb
Size: 19564
MD5sum: d5f21152b0b334a3f6fe7ba622d7f602
SHA1: 7bebebf5df8cc0a20ef4ce9dd1dab481e29a877f
SHA256: 52727b53d384248e00f681079804b15428bf0df49854bddcbada2e9bd49c55db
Description: The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
 GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
 This is a metapackage which will always depend on the latest Emacs
 release.
Tag: devel::editor, role::dummy, role::metapackage, special::meta, 
suite::emacs, suite::gnu, use::editing

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