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23.4; Reverse video doesn't work for -nw

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Message #29 received at 10683 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> gnu.org>
To: Łukasz Michalik <lmi <at> ift.uni.wroc.pl>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 10683 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10683: 23.4; Reverse video doesn't work for -nw
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:58:41 -0500

Łukasz Michalik <lmi <at> ift.uni.wroc.pl> writes:

> On 17:39 2012-01-31 -0500, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>> Could you say what terminal emulator you are using and what the value of
>> $TERM is?
>
> TERM is rxvt-unicode-256color
>
>> In rxvt COLORFGBG can be used to determine the fg and bg color used by
>> the terminal.  Emacs can use that to set the `background-mode', and
>> all the faces are defined based on `background-mode'.
>
> COLORFGBG is 15;0
>
>> It might be interesting to evaluate this:
>> 
>> M-: (frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'background-mode)) RET
>
> It prints 'dark' for both.
>
> Another note: frames started for emacsclient aren't affected by this.

Do you see the problem if you start emacs with:

emacs -Q -nw
?

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