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In-Reply-To: <92B0B60A-A2A3-470B-A269-75531CA4FCE2@gmail.com> (message from Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= on Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:35:01 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:292638 Archived-At: > From: Mattias EngdegÄrd > Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:35:01 +0200 > Cc: Emacs Bug Report , > Eli Zaretskii , > Stefan Monnier > > 29 sep. 2024 kl. 13.31 skrev Gerd Möllmann : > > >> I first blamed a simple 14 years old mistake in `custom-fix-face-spec` > >> but fixing that doesn't help, not sure why. > > Having said that I naturally had to find the bug and it appears to be `face-spec-set-2` which only sets attributes that are present in `face-x-resources` for some reason. > > > I'm pretty sure that I added :italic, :bold, :reverse-video to what > > later became Emacs 21 only for backwards compatibility with the old > > pre-21 face implementation. At least on the surface, because 21 faces > > work completely differently. (I also seem to remeber that reverse-video > > was a synonym for inverse-video in the old code, maybe even > > undocumented. > > Thanks. Given Gerd's testimony, the lack of use and general brokenness, I propose we just give up on :reverse-video, perhaps removing it from xfaces.c. I'm not sure I understand the proposal: we remove :reverse-video, but keep :inverse-video (which _is_ included in face-x-resources)? Or did you mean to remove :inverse-video as well?