bug#17648: 24.4.50; regression: emacsclient under screen (1) slow for some values of TERM

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v9.20 - released: 2014-04-26
>> options:
>> perl,xft,styles,combining,blink,iso14755,unicode3,encodings=eu+vn+jp+jp-ext+kr+Zusammenhang+Zusammenhang-ext,fade,transparent,tint,pixbuf,XIM,frills,selectionscrolling,wh
>> eel,slipwheel,smart-resize,cursorBlink,pointerBlank,scrollbars=plain+rxvt+NeXT+xterm
>
> Now, I'm confused: are you running Emacs inside rxvt-unicode or inside
> screen (at least in theory, if Emacs is running inside screen, it
> shouldn't be affected by whether that screen runs inside an xterm, rxvt,
> or anything else: that's screen's problem).
>
>> This is after the very first connection to a emacs server started with:
>> emacs-snapshot -Q --daemon:
>
>> ESC [ > 8 3 ; 4 0 2 0 0 ; 0 c C-h l
>
> Hmm... I recently installed a patch for terminals using "ESC [ > 83 ..."
> as above.  Could you try again (with the emacs-24 code, since it hasn't
> been merged into trunk yet) to see if that fixes it, by any chance?
>
> After trying out rxvt-unicode and screen here, I think you're running
> Emacs inside screen rather than inside rxvt, and I think Jim was also
> running his Emacs inside screen rather than inside an OSX Terminal.app.
> Jim, can you confirm?

Yes.  Sorry for the inaccuracy.  There was indeed a screen
intermediary between the OSX Terminal.app and my emacs process.