bug#19802: 24.4.90; set-background-color does nothing in -nw sessions

[Eli Zaretskii]

To reproduce:

  emacs -Q -nw
  M-x set-background-color RET blue RET

This appears to have no effect at all.  Even the 'background-color'
frame parameter stays at its default "unspecified-bg" value, even
though the code of set-background-color explicitly modifies the
frame's parameters:

  (defun set-background-color (color-name)
    "Set the background color of the selected frame to COLOR-NAME.
  When called interactively, prompt for the name of the color to use.
  To get the frame's current background color, use `frame-parameters'."
    (interactive (list (read-color "Background color: ")))
    (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame)
                             (list (cons 'background-color color-name)))
    (or window-system
        (face-set-after-frame-default (selected-frame))))

Looks like this has been broken since 24.1, as the last version in
which I see it working is 23.4.  I tried both on GNU/Linux and on
MS-Windows, with the same result.


In GNU Emacs 24.4.90.4 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-02-07 on HOME-C4E4A596F7
Repository revision: 4f5033faf26c69c123452d750bb2adfa2e77666b
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