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28.2; visible-bell breaks setterm --inversescreen on

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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey <at> his.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 66128 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tom <at> logand.com, dickey <at> his.com
Subject: bug#66128: 28.2; visible-bell breaks setterm --inversescreen on
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:07:22 -0400

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On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 08:03:38AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> Thanks.  So Emacs should ideally reverse the sequence when the
> terminal is in the reverse-video mode, or at least send the "\033[?5h"
> sequence after sending "flash"?  But can Emacs know that the terminal
> is in this mode at startup?

I don't see how - the usual way (an escape sequence which returns this
information) is not documented for Linux in console_codes.

Lacking that, you'd rely upon the user to tell Emacs what to do.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey <at> invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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