bug#17378: 24.3.1: xterm-mouse-event: Wrong type argument: wholenump, -6

[Ishmael]

Apparently, this bug is somehow related to PuTTY, which I use to connect from
my Windows machine to a Linux (CentOS) box.  I'm unable to reproduce the bug
on a native Linux host (or rather, a VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu on my
Windows machine).

The more exact steps to get the bug are:
PuTTY + SSH to Linux
tmux
emacs -nw junk.txt  (where junk.txt just contains 50 random lines)
Scroll to the bottom using mouse wheel.
C-x 3 (this creates a new buffer window to the right with a copy of the
text)
With the mouse, click on a line in this new, rightmost window.  Scroll to
the top using the mouse wheel.
C-x 3 (a third window is created to the right)
With the mouse, click on a line in the new, rightmost window. Scroll to the
bottom using the mouse wheel.
C-x 3 (a fourth window is created to the right)
With the mouse, click on a line and attempt to scroll up with the mouse
wheel.
Up-scrolling is frozen, yielding the error message originally described.

Sometimes, the third window freezes.  To get the behavior consistently, I
have to open four windows.





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