From: Stefan Kangas Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:36:33 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Don't recommend inverse-video for debugging X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e423e9cdf199b36d1135a3a5eab5f523ba4aa2e;p=emacs.git 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 181e24e0057..1680aab4385 100644 --- 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