I kinda like it like this...
What's the point of having it like this?
Sure it makes a sort of logical sense that the relationship between the foreground and the background be maintained, especially if you happen to be one of those people who likes using 'invisible' characters to create long disgusting patterns to make flags and such like...
... but the original poster is right, the main thing when you highlight is that you're either copying to clipboard, or you're trying to see what some lame sod has erroneously written invisibly to you.
Fixing the latter has surely got to be more important.
