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Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';'


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';'
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 22:03:36 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.91 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> IMNSHO, not explicitly enough:
>
>   ** Emacs now supports being built with pure GTK.
>   To use this option, make sure the GTK 3 and Cairo development files
>   are installed, and configure Emacs with the option '--with-pgtk'.
>   Unlike the default X and GTK build, the resulting Emacs binary will
>   work on any underlying window system supported by GDK, such as
>   Wayland and Broadway.
>
> No matter how many times I re-read this, I fail to understand that it
> tells me not to use it on X, and it definitely doesn't warn me of any
> downsides if I do.  A word of warning is definitely in order there.

How about "the resulting Emacs binary is supposed to work with window
systems other than X that are supported by GDK, such as Wayland and
Broadway"?

Thanks.


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