From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David F. Skoll" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs 23.1 flushes stdin on startup Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:16:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4A789738.8090008@roaringpenguin.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249418284 12798 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2009 20:38:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:38:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 04 22:37:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MYQlg-0004vn-DU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:37:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35533 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYQlf-000459-Ty for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:37:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYQRS-0001fd-UN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYQRQ-0001fR-U6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:17:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49225 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYQRQ-0001fO-Q8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from roaringpenguin.com ([70.38.112.54]:1634 helo=colo3.roaringpenguin.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYQRQ-00077P-GL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from vanadium.roaringpenguin.com (vanadium.roaringpenguin.com [192.168.10.23]) by colo3.roaringpenguin.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n74KGvrC031122 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:16:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.10.1] (dfs@hydrogen.roaringpenguin.com [192.168.10.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by vanadium.roaringpenguin.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n74KGvFV017103 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:16:57 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080707 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.168.7.18 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.65 on 192.168.10.23 X-Spam-Score: undef - spam scanning disabled X-CanIt-Geo: No geolocation information available for 192.168.10.23 X-CanItPRO-Stream: outgoing (inherits from default) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:35:50 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66744 Archived-At: Hi, I've noticed a behavior change in 23.1 that doesn't seem to be documented: If I start Emacs in text mode (eg: "emacs -nw") and type stuff before Emacs has started up, the stuff I type is lost. Version 22 would not flush the input, and my pre-startup stuff would appear in the buffer. I really miss the old behavior. Is there any way to convince Emacs 23.1 not to flush stdin on startup? Regards, David.