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emacsclient obeys Xresources even when launched with -nw

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 32921 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, jimis <at> gmx.net
Subject: bug#32921: emacsclient obeys Xresources even when launched with -nw
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 13:50:40 +0300

> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>,  32921 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  jimis <at> gmx.net
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 16:19:50 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I object to removing that code without any trace.  We should resolve
> > the bug by adding the X resource derived reverseVideo argument to
> > window-system-default-frame-alist instead of default-frame-alist.
> 
> That would still change relatively old behavior from the days of Emacs
> 23, where the parameter in question began to apply to TTY frames as
> well.

Yes.  But ignoring X resources in TTY frames is much more defendable
change than ignoring them on all frames.

> But the "age-old behavior" is IMHO wrong enough that it's more
> likely to be a bug from 19.29 (when support for multiple X displays was
> introduced), as opposed to a feature.

What you consider a bug is nowadays a de-facto "feature", given how
much time Emacs behaved like that.

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