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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> But I know of no way to do just the pattern matching and
>> existence test without fetching all the other data. The amount of wasted
>> allocations are dependent on the content of my directory, of course.

> Did you look at that directory lately?  It should be cleaned from time
> to time, to avoid having there auto-save files from years ago.

Arguable, Emacs should fins a way to do it automatically for you.


        Stefan