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bug#1495: emacs -nw inserts unwanted chars if user is impatient
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
bug#1495: emacs -nw inserts unwanted chars if user is impatient |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:10:35 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
> I'm fairly confident this is due to the code in xterm.el that deals
> with modifyOtherKeys, the input probably comes while emacs is waiting
> from an answer from xterm.
This indeed seems to be the problem.
Discard pending input before doing the terminal query seems to fix the
bug for me. I don't know if it's possible for the user's input to come
inat exactly at the correct moment to fool the terminal query; if so, a
more complicated solution might be required.
Thoughts?
*** trunk/lisp/term/xterm.el.~1.59.~ 2008-09-30 20:01:30.000000000 -0400
--- trunk/lisp/term/xterm.el 2008-12-04 23:07:47.000000000 -0500
***************
*** 475,480 ****
--- 475,481 ----
(str nil))
;; Try to find out the type of terminal by sending a "Secondary
;; Device Attributes (DA)" query.
+ (discard-input)
(send-string-to-terminal "\e[>0c")
;; The reply should be of the form: \e [ > NUMBER1 ; NUMBER2 ; NUMBER3 c