Don't recommend inverse-video for debugging

* etc/DEBUG: Don't recommend 'inverse-video', which has been broken
for 20 years, give or take.  (Bug#11430)

(cherry picked from commit c4b4948845508d599f6176441a833ae1a2cb6d40)

diff --git a/etc/DEBUG b/etc/DEBUG
index 181e24e005762f0cb9f63c058fb59545192d7e47..1680aab438513802b5e9226750e0a78c36332926 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/DEBUG
+++ b/etc/DEBUG
@@ -864,11 +864,6 @@ in your ~/.emacs file.  When the problem happens, exit the Emacs that
 you were running, kill it, and rename the two files.  Then you can start
 another Emacs without clobbering those files, and use it to examine them.
 
-An easy way to see if too much text is being redrawn on a terminal is to
-evaluate '(setq inverse-video t)' before you try the operation you think
-will cause too much redrawing.  This doesn't refresh the screen, so only
-newly drawn text is in inverse video.
-
 ** Debugging LessTif
 
 If you encounter bugs whereby Emacs built with LessTif grabs all mouse