Re: emacsclient and reverseVideo in Xresources

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:47:04 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>
> >
> > - "emacs" launches a window with dark background
> > - "emacsclient -c" launches a window with dark background
> > - "emacs -nw" launches emacs with dark background in the terminal
> > - "emacsclient -nw" launches emacsclient in the terminal with WHITE background!
> >
> > Why is the last one happening?
>
> Because text-mode frames aren't sensitive to X resources: they don't
> use X services to display text.

Thanks. But "emacs -nw" is a text-mode frame, and it has dark background. 
It's only "emacsclient -nw" that has light background. Furthermore setting 
the emacs global variable "inverse-video" to t does not change any 
behaviour, so it must be unrelated to the Xresources.

I am assuming that emacsclient is just a thin C program that manages the 
console itself in the "nw" case, but in the X case it communicates to 
emacs server and does not manage anything by itself. This could explain 
the different behaviour but still sounds like a bug to me.


Dimitris