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24.0.96; Customizing `inverse-video' has no effect on session

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Message #40 received at 11430 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 11430 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#11430: 24.0.96; Customizing `inverse-video' has no effect
 on session
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:36:12 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>,  11430 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>   drew.adams <at> oracle.com
> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:03:36 +0200
> 
> > FWIW, I see no reason to remove the variable just because we don't
> > seem to know how to fix this.
> 
> The variable hasn't worked for 20 years (apparently), and this is the
> only bug report about it, which is perhaps a hint that we should just
> remove it.

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.

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