bug#1495: marked as done (emacs -nw inserts unwanted chars if user is impatient)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #1494,
regarding emacs -nw inserts unwanted chars if user is impatient
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> emacs -nw inserts unwanted chars if user is impatient
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> Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:46:20 +0100
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi,
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> 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 
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>    emacs -nw conf_file.conf
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> 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.
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> In this particular case, emacs would insert strange chars at point, for
> example : 1;1704;0c
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> You won't be warned, and it will be saved along with your real
> modifications, which is embarassing.
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> To reproduce, open any multiline file from the terminal, for example
> .bash_history, with 'emacs -nw' and immediatly maintain C-n until the
> display come up entirely. You should find at point the strange chars.
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> Tested with emacs23cvs with -Q on Gnu/Linux with xterm and
> gnome-terminal.
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>   Paul
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> Re: emacs -nw inserts unwanted chars if user is impatient
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> Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:57:12 -0500
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> I don't see any other way to handle this, so I've checked in the fix
> involving discarding pending input before reading the reply to the
> terminal attributes query.
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