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emacs-29 c4b49488455: Don't recommend inverse-video for debugging


From: Stefan Kangas
Subject: emacs-29 c4b49488455: Don't recommend inverse-video for debugging
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:43:57 -0500 (EST)

branch: emacs-29
commit c4b4948845508d599f6176441a833ae1a2cb6d40
Author: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Commit: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>

    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)
---
 etc/DEBUG | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/DEBUG b/etc/DEBUG
index dd699f962ba..9dae54aeabd 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



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