bug#11822: 24.1; emacsclient terminal mode captures escape characters as text

[Stefan Monnier]

> So if redrawing the mode line involves recomputing all the basic
> faces, it might still be too expensive over a slow network.  We need
> to avoid that recomputation where possible.

That's right.  I was assuming that C-x o (which requires the same kind
of mode-line updates) normally doesn't trigger a recomputation of the
basic faces, but I don't actually know if that's the case.


        Stefan