Re: Emacs 23.1 flushes stdin on startup

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > > Please see bug#4234, I have a patch there to allow emacs to read the
  > > background color from xterm so that it can set the correct
  > > background-mode (and not just default to 'light).
  > > When that code is allowed to be checked in,
  > > `xterm-enable-modify-other-keys' will not be appropriate anymore.
  > > Maybe `xterm-enable-terminal-query' ?
  > 
  > The problem is that we don't want to control whether we query or not,
  > but also the decision we take based on the (expected) result.
  > So maybe your code should use a similar xterm-background-mode which can
  > be set to `dark', `light' or `check'.

Sounds like a good idea.  I'll do that after Ted's patch is checked in.