Comment 9 for bug 73310

The problem is that it never references the appropriate setting...
I attached a unified diff that fixes the bug, so gphpedit actually uses the background highlight setting chosen.

For non-developers out there, to use it:

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apt-get source gphpedit
sudo apt-get install libgtkhtml2-dev libgnomeui-dev
cd gphpedit-0.9.91
patch -p0 -i tab.diff
./configure
make && make install
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