HOWTO: Install GNU Emacs with antialiasing

[Ryan H]

I'm also getting the error:
webdav error: 404 Not Found

Anyone know why?

-Ryan H

[svref]

I just skipped that step. It seemed to work OK for me. Then again, I'm running debian stable, so what the hork am I doing here?
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My biggest complaint with the new emacs is that the block cursor is SOLID BLACK. I can't see the char that's underneath it! Customizing the "cursor" face has no effect on the actual cursor.

[durus]

Thx for this How to, it looks very good now, but i have some questions:
How do i change font ?
How do i know witch fonts i have ?
Witch fonts do you recommend ?
How do i fix auto indent in python, it do not work after installing with antialiasing ?

[etola]

Also, I don't have any such file as ".Xresources" in my home dir, the closest I found was ".Xauthority", has this anything to do with the problem?

no its not the same file. you can create it yourself in your home dir ~/.

[etola]

I'm also getting the error:
webdav error: 404 Not Found

Anyone know why?

-Ryan H

same for me too

[shak]

i found something useful in the net (esp. google cache )

.Xresources

Emacs*FontBackend: xft
Emacs*font: Monospace-11
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: None

no need to restart the X-Server just do:

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

kind regards

[rosslaird]

This howto only got me part way there, so I tried the debian (ubuntu) package from Alexandre Vassalotti:

http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/01/06/pretty-emacs

Worked perfectly.

Ross

[willnapier]

Hi, I would just like to say that the link in the above post worked perfectly for me on feisty. I hope that it's description as alpha doesn't mean that it is really unstable. Will report back if so.

[phill0]

Well it's April 2008 and I'm not sure whether above info applies to modern days. It would be amazing if it does. I didn't compile anything yet but tried to use emacs as it's distributed for Ubuntu 7.10. I don't get antialiased fonts of course, so I tried and I can start emacs with different fonts (the names of which I get from xlsfonts) for example:

emacs --font "lucidasanstypewriter-10"

This changes the font but I can't make it look antialiased which is quite amazing since fonts everywhere in the system are nice...

I have also tried putting:

Emacs*FontBackend: xft
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.hinting: None

And then doing "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources", but that didn't change anything.

Can someone who knows current state of Emacs in Ubuntu say what should be done in modern days, should I still download a cvs version and compile it?

[Arathon]

Not to oversimplify, but I do know of one solution that worked wonderfully for me. Given that the "Pretty Emacs" (Google it) solution doesn't seem to be working for Hardy Heron, I found something else online that someone said worked.

However, you have to be running Hardy. =P If you do decide to make the upgrade, then all you have to do is install

sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk

then, within your home directory, create an .Xresources file to tell emacs what font to use...as you can see, I chose Monospace-10. You could choose anything you want.

echo "Emacs.font: Monospace-10" > .Xresources

On a fresh install of the RC for Hardy Heron, this worked perfectly. Nothing else that I tried did.

Oh, and to give credit where it's due: http://psung.blogspot.com/2008/03/em...-has-anti.html