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obsolete (and broken) face attribute :reverse-video

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Bug Report <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: obsolete (and broken) face attribute :reverse-video
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:35:01 +0200

29 sep. 2024 kl. 13.31 skrev Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>:

>> I first blamed a simple 14 years old mistake in `custom-fix-face-spec`
>> but fixing that doesn't help, not sure why.

Having said that I naturally had to find the bug and it appears to be `face-spec-set-2` which only sets attributes that are present in `face-x-resources` for some reason.

> I'm pretty sure that I added :italic, :bold, :reverse-video to what
> later became Emacs 21 only for backwards compatibility with the old
> pre-21 face implementation. At least on the surface, because 21 faces
> work completely differently. (I also seem to remeber that reverse-video
> was a synonym for inverse-video in the old code, maybe even
> undocumented.

Thanks. Given Gerd's testimony, the lack of use and general brokenness, I propose we just give up on :reverse-video, perhaps removing it from xfaces.c.

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