GNU bug report logs - #73552
obsolete (and broken) face attribute :reverse-video

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
Cc: gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: obsolete (and broken) face attribute :reverse-video
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:49:39 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:41:53 +0200
> Cc: gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com,
>  bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org,
>  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> 
> 29 sep. 2024 kl. 14.55 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
> 
> > I'm not sure I understand the proposal: we remove :reverse-video, but
> > keep :inverse-video (which _is_ included in face-x-resources)?  Or did
> > you mean to remove :inverse-video as well?
> 
> Leave face-x-resources as it is. Keep :inverse-video.
> Remove all references to :reverse-video everywhere (except the newly introduced warning).

I think the use of :reverse-video in make-mode.el should be changed to
:inverse-video.  Otherwise, I'm okay with retiring this old and
half-supported alias.

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