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diff --git a/man/display.texi b/man/display.texi
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--- a/man/display.texi
+++ b/man/display.texi
@@ -1004,15 +1004,6 @@ global-hl-line-mode} enables or disables the same mode globally.
   This section contains information for customization only.  Beginning
 users should skip it.
 
-@vindex mode-line-inverse-video
-  The variable @code{mode-line-inverse-video} is an obsolete way of
-controlling whether the mode line is displayed in inverse video; the
-preferred way of doing this is to change the @code{mode-line} face.
-@xref{Mode Line}.  However, if @code{mode-line-inverse-video} has a
-value of @code{nil}, then the @code{mode-line} face will be ignored,
-and mode-lines will be drawn using the default text face.
-@xref{Faces}.
-
 @vindex inverse-video
   If the variable @code{inverse-video} is non-@code{nil}, Emacs attempts
 to invert all the lines of the display from what they normally are.