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27.1.50; Maybe wrong cursor FG color in NS port

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: larsi <at> gnus.org
Cc: 43381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, alan <at> idiocy.org, dale <at> codefu.org
Subject: bug#43381: 27.1.50; Maybe wrong cursor FG color in NS port
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:55:14 +0300

> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:44:08 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 43381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, alan <at> idiocy.org, dale <at> codefu.org
> 
> > Or should we fix the code?  As the example demonstrates, this makes some
> > of the inverse-blinked text difficult to read.
> 
> Any specific suggestions for a fix?
> 
> > Presumably the colour distance between the cursor and the default
> > face's background is more legible?
> 
> If you imply that we should sometimes refuse to merge faces, I'd
> object to that, since we never do such things anywhere.
> 
> Maybe it's enough to define (and handle) a distant-foreground color
> for the cursor face?

Oh, and of course the documentation should be fixed regardless, as it
is inaccurate, and will continue to be inaccurate even if we fix this
in some way.

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