From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: -rv on a tty
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:13:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2D65AA62-3D2D-4422-B4FF-8043AE4FE0E4@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zkskg8vh.fsf@gnu.org>
5 dec 2010 kl. 05:07 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:53:40 -0500
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Bug #5421 is a regression from Emacs 22, so I think it should be fixed
>>> before releasing v23.3.
>>
>> I'll take a look at it if I find the time
>
> Thanks.
>
>> but I do with the -rv option had never been invented. It seems to
>> serve no purpose except make redisplay more complicated.
>
> I agree that it complicates things, but I think we didn't invent it:
> it's a standard option of every GUI application on X, isn't it?
It was standard on Xt-based applications, but not so for Gtk+ or Qt-based applications.
Switching foreground and background was easy back then with old style fonts. With aa-fonts and transparency things are more complicated.
Jan D.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-05 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-04 18:35 -rv on a tty Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-04 22:53 ` Chong Yidong
2010-12-05 4:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-05 9:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-05 10:13 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
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