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

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 11430 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#11430: 24.0.96;
 Customizing `inverse-video' has no effect on session
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 11:52:25 -0700

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tags 11430 + patch
thanks

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> 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.

[0001-Make-inverse-video-obsolete.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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