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27.1.50; Maybe wrong cursor FG color in NS port

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dale Sedivec <dale <at> codefu.org>
Cc: 43381 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43381: 27.1.50; Maybe wrong cursor FG color in NS port
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 01:11:30 +0200

Dale Sedivec <dale <at> codefu.org> writes:

> The Emacs manual says[1], "the text shown under the cursor is drawn using
> the frame’s background color."  However, on the NS port, the foreground
> for text under the cursor seems to be taken from the face at point
> rather than the frame's background color.
>
> [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Cursor-Display.html
>
> To illustrate this, start emacs -Q and eval:
>
>     (progn
>       (switch-to-buffer (generate-new-buffer "test"))
>       (insert (propertize "testing"
>                           'face '((:background "blue" :foreground "white"))))
>       (goto-char 1))

It's not just the NS port, apparently -- I get the same in Debian.

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