From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 1495@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs -nw inserts unwanted chars if user is impatient
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:10:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skp3w9c4.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812042030.mB4KU5Jn003761@mothra.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:30:05 -0800 (PST)")
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-05 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 19:06 emacs -nw inserts unwanted chars if user is impatient Paul R
2008-12-04 19:30 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-04 20:30 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-05 4:10 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-12-11 16:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-04 21:52 ` Paul R
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