bug#11430: 24.0.96; Customizing `inverse-video' has no effect on session

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> It's a bug, plain and simple, that setting that variable doesn't
> affect the display.
>
> Fixing the bug may not be easy, and isn't high priority, but it
> nevertheless is a bug.
>
> FWIW, I see no reason to remove the variable just because we don't
> seem to know how to fix this.

The variable hasn't worked for 20 years (apparently), and this is the
only bug report about it, which is perhaps a hint that we should just
remove it.

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