Re: modeline face under a tty

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Alex Schroeder wrote:

> I don't know what unspecified-fg and unspecified-bg actually mean

They stand for the unknown colors the terminal had when Emacs started.

> A face with foreground "red" and no background color and specified as
> inverse-video should look use "red" foreground and the same background
> as the default face if colors are available.  If no colors are
> available, it should use the default foreground as background and the
> default background as foreground.

What do you mean by ``if colors are available''?  Does that mean ``if
the terminal supports colors''?  If so, I don't understand why you
don't want to use the foreground of the default face as the mode-line
background color, in this particular case.  It seems to be a
contradiction to what you want to see when ``no colors are
available''.

> A face with foreground "red" and background "blue" and specified as
> inverse-video should look use "red" foreground and "blue" background
> if colors are available.  If no colors are available, it should use
> the default foreground as background and the default background as
> foreground.

Same here.