I agree. Once you reproduce the problem with the first approach, the second flow reproduces it again. I am suspecting if we are somehow corrupting the tty.

I am happy that you could reproduce it. Give me some pointers and I will debug. By the way, it has been a long (almost 5 years) since I started following emacs-devel closely.

Nice to see the same familiar hackers hacking away on emacs.

with best regards,

dhruva

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 10:03:17 -0700
> From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>

>
> I found an easier way to reproduce the problem.
>
> - Run emacs in terminal (-nw) mode: emacs -q -nw
> - M-x to enger minibuffer prompt
> - Type 'ho' and hit TAB
> - CTRL-g will quit the command but the menubar is gone and the minibuffer
> frame is multiple lines high

This doesn't reproduce the problem for me (your previous recipe did).