This issue is also mentioned in some of the comments from the tail of #13839 [1,2,3]. Victor even quoted the XTerm changelog :p. I don't see a patch for this particular issue in #13839, although Stefan posts a patch for some other keymap stuff, and Victor floats an alternate regexp [1]. [1]: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13839#11 [2]: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13839#14 [3]: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13839#17