Subject: Re: bug#10683: 23.4; Reverse video doesn't work for -nw

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:23:40 -0500

Łukasz Michalik wrote:

>> and Emacs detected the background mode as dark when it should
>> have been light (or vice versa)
> I don't really understand that, but whatever you say.  I used to get
> transparent background with white fg, now it's reversed.

Could you say what terminal emulator you are using and what the value of
$TERM is?

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2501

suggests setting COLORFGBG, but I don't know what that does.