tags 11430 + patch
thanks

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> 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.

(That was four years ago.)

The attached patch obsoletes 'inverse-video' and makes the variable into
a no-op.