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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 11430@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se
Subject: bug#11430: 24.0.96; Customizing `inverse-video' has no effect on session
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:10:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfh1j41y.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lfh3xhub.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:36:12 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I'm asking not to remove it yet.  Maybe one of these days I will find
> time to work on this.  It bugs me (pun intended) that this veteran
> feature stopped working on TTY frames.

My point is that now -- 20 years after this stopped working -- we should
step back a bit and look at whether this functionality (which must at
this remove be seen to be a new feature) makes sense.

And I don't think it does much.  Setting a variable that makes the Emacs
display go inverse?  That's just kinda odd.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-22 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07 16:38 bug#11430: 24.0.96; Customizing `inverse-video' has no effect on session Drew Adams
2012-09-16 23:57 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-09  4:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-01 18:16   ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-01 18:24     ` Drew Adams
2019-11-01 19:58       ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-01 21:06         ` Drew Adams
2019-11-02  9:45         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-02 11:06           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-21 15:03           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-21 15:33             ` Drew Adams
2020-09-21 15:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-22 14:10               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2024-06-23 18:52                 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-06-23 19:27                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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