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[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 15:40 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> peter.backlund at home.se (Peter Backlund) writes:
> >> emacs-21.3-20
> >> -------------
> > ...
> > Any news on the Gtk Emacs front?
> 
> I would not spend much energy on such a port.  A Gtk port means AA
> fonts which are really a bad choice for text based applications.
> Current (X)Emacs have a startup-time <1 second so that it can be used
> as $EDITOR. With Gtk I fear, that this will be somewhere around 5-10
> seconds.

The last time I tried (and checking again with the current packages Jens
has, it's still true), they're just using gtk for all of the windowing
code.  The text widget is still the same old emacs text widget.

Jeremy