Re: modeline colors in emacs 24.2.1

[Bernardo]

It was a dark and stormy night when Ken Goldman said  (05/12/12 06:17):
> I just installed emacs 24.2.1 (on Windows 7 if that matters) and am 
> going through the usual task of porting my .emacs.
>
> I notice that the modeline seems to be reversed.  That is, what used to 
> be the foreground is now the background and vice versa.  The text is 
> appearing in the background color.  Is this a known change?  It seems odd.

i use half a dozen (mostly MS Windows, mostly under Remote Desktop) PCs 
at work, and have seen foreground/background modeline colours swapped -- 
on *some* of them; they all use almost identical .emacs; this "feature" 
has been around for a while (probably since version 22.x) if indeed it 
is an Emacs feature and not a configuration problem;

i've never had a closer look and just used a manually set variable in 
.emacs to swap the modeline colours

(not much help, i know)