bug#8003: 23.1; Background of mouse is incorrect

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Huafeng Zhou <HZhou@pixelworks.com> writes:

> Again. It is found that mouse-color is defined in default-frame-alist as 
> following.
> (setq default-frame-alist
>       (append (list '(foreground-color . "black")
>             '(mouse-color . "white")
>             '(cursor-color . "black")
>             '(width . 120)
>             '(height . 50)
>        default-frame-alist))
> The above 'mouse-color' was effective although the following were defined in 
> parallel.
> '(mouse ((t (:background "blue" :foreground "black" :box (:line-width 2 
> :color "black" :style released-button) :underline "black")))))

Hm, I tried reproducing this now in Emacs 27, but then I realised I
didn't know what to look for.  What is the `mouse' face used for?  It
can't be the mouse pointer, I guess, and it's not used for
highlighting.  I tried grepping, but the only usage I could find was in
speedbar.el.

Anybody?

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