Re: emacsclient and reverseVideo in Xresources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:02:53 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>
> cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> >> 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. 

Your "emacs -nw" is in an xterm, no?  I think it's xterm that heeds to
the X resources, not Emacs in that case.

> 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.

Could be.  Please submit a bug report about that, and thanks.