Re: no way to stop helpful modeline color tinkering

[Chong Yidong]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:

> Big let down versus emacs21.
> $ emacs -Q /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL #or any file with lots of text
> C-x 2 C-x o
> The mode line running across the middle of the screen is the same
> color as my emacs background color set in ~/.Xresources,
> Emacs*Background: DarkSlateGray
>
> Instead of two windows, it looks very much like one big window!
>
> And it seems there is no variable to restore the former emacs21 style
> behavior. Thanks for trying to show me what buffer is current via
> changing the modeline, but it turns out that was too helpful.

Dude... just set mode-line-in-non-selected-windows to nil.