Re: Some observations about --with-cairo

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2017-06-04 22:03, David Kastrup wrote:
> Well, just out of interest, I compiled emacs using --with-cairo.
> Redraws are unusably slow and partly incorrect and font display is
> pretty bad.
> 
> That being said,
> M-: (with-temp-file "/tmp/frame.pdf" (insert (x-export-frames)))
> as a screen dump is, well, interesting.
> I append a resulting file from using this in an Info buffer with images.

Beautiful!
Is anyone currently working on improving Cairo support?  Is there a roadmap / 
task list somewhere?

> Also, one could copy&paste from the frames in such a manual, in contrast
> to actual raster screen dumps.

Indeed, except for the usual problem with indentation and spaces being lost.

Clément.