From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs -nw inserts unwanted chars if user is impatient Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:30:32 -0500 Message-ID: <87d4g7d9gn.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <87ljuv92uq.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228419076 19811 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2008 19:31:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 19:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul R Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 04 20:32:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L8JvQ-0006WW-7B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:31:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45802 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8JuF-0001hW-O0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:30:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L8JuB-0001h6-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:30:31 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L8JuA-0001gf-Nt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:30:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58670 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8JuA-0001gQ-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:30:30 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:39510) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L8JuA-0005TS-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:30:30 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 94F3B57E1C8; Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:30:32 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87ljuv92uq.fsf@gmail.com> (Paul R.'s message of "Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:06:53 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106568 Archived-At: Paul R writes: > I usually work on X version of emacs 23. However, sometime, I just want > to alter a config file from the terminal. In this case I type > > emacs -nw conf_file.conf > > Very often I know that the line I want to go to is fairly low so before > emacs has finished to load I'm already pressing C-n waiting for the > display to show line and point. I guess a lot of user do the same and > often don't wait for the display to finish before typing what they want. Probably the key sequence is getting registered before the keyboard translation is set up properly. Emacs probably needs to discard this input instead of trying to deal with it. Could you file a bug so that we don't forget about this?