Re: Strange "1;2600;0c" sequence in startup (message-mode?)

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

jester@panix.com (Jesse Sheidlower) writes:

> I have recently been seeing a strange sequence of characters when I
> start Emacs up to send a message, either when sending a new message, or
> replying to an existing one. I believe that this started when I began to
> use message-mode. Typically it will be "1;2600;0c", inserted at the
> start of a message, but I have noticed other numbers close to "2600" in
> the middle section.
>
> This only happens when I have started typing before Emacs has fully
> launched (usually by hitting return once or twice); if I wait for it to
> load, I do not get any such sequence. But it does happen very regularly
> when
>
> It's been hard to Google for this. Does this ring a bell for anyone? I
> have some hooks for message-mode, but nothing that looks like it could
> cause this, although I don't know what the sequence represents.

It's the end of an escape sequence.  You're probably using emacs in a
terminal, and there must be a discrepancy between what the terminal is
really, and what declared in the environment variable TERM.  Or perhaps
there's an error in the terminfo (or termcap) database.


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