Subject: bug#43381: 27.1.50; Maybe wrong cursor FG color in NS port

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 01:49:43 +0200

Alan Third <[email-masked]> writes:

> Now you mention it, I can see that the X ports use the face colours as
> well...
>
> xterm.c:1518
>       xgcv.background = s->f->output_data.x->cursor_pixel;
>       xgcv.foreground = s->face->background;
>            ^               ^

Yeah, it looks like it's been like that since at least the 90s.  So...
the documentation is just wrong?

I think it does sound like it would make sense to use the background
colour here for the face colour, though, since that's guaranteed to
stand out against the cursor colour, you'd think.

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