From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11430: 24.0.96; Customizing `inverse-video' has no effect on session Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:45:49 +0200 Message-ID: <835zk2k3w2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sirsewrg.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87lfszihrv.fsf@skangas.se> <12b63a55-3b24-4e61-962a-29754f2e0b84@default> <87k18jxtb9.fsf@marxist.se> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="72666"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 11430@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, stefan@marxist.se To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 02 10:46:34 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iQpzN-000IjS-RP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:46:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45994 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQpzJ-0004Oj-S0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:46:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQpzA-0004OO-2h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:46:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQpyt-00050K-Ct for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:49372) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQpyt-0004v1-97 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQpys-0007yF-3R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:46:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 09:46:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11430 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: confirmed Original-Received: via spool by 11430-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11430.157268795830628 (code B ref 11430); Sat, 02 Nov 2019 09:46:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11430) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Nov 2019 09:45:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58192 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQpyo-0007xr-9y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:45:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55073) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQpym-0007xY-5h for 11430@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51711) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQpyc-00040V-Br; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1652 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iQpya-0001Kd-Vt; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:45:45 -0400 In-reply-to: <87k18jxtb9.fsf@marxist.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:58:18 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170781 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:58:18 +0100 > Cc: 11430@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen , > Stefan Kangas > > > Why would it be obsolete? Anyway, it's in the C source code still. > > As I said, I can't discern any visible effects from setting it to t. It's a bug, plain and simple, that setting that variable doesn't affect the display. Fixing the bug may not be easy, and isn't high priority, but it nevertheless is a bug. FWIW, I see no reason to remove the variable just because we don't seem to know how to fix this.