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authorChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2008-12-06 03:57:16 +0000
committerChong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>2008-12-06 03:57:16 +0000
commit56f37e53c9713f1ff3823bfd649cf2c9827d6068 (patch)
tree51a0f583619b1e89b0d355b2f678a4e1e88b32b1 /lisp/term/xterm.el
parent91b07ee352424d5aa470310eedce3840071e3589 (diff)
downloademacs-56f37e53c9713f1ff3823bfd649cf2c9827d6068.tar.gz
(terminal-init-xterm): Discard pending input before reading a reply to
the terminal attributes query.
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diff --git a/lisp/term/xterm.el b/lisp/term/xterm.el
index b01adf4995b..e893f88da50 100644
--- a/lisp/term/xterm.el
+++ b/lisp/term/xterm.el
@@ -473,6 +473,9 @@
(let ((coding-system-for-read 'binary)
(chr nil)
(str nil))
+ ;; Pending input can be mistakenly returned by the calls to
+ ;; read-event below. Discard it.
+ (discard-input)
;; Try to find out the type of terminal by sending a "Secondary
;; Device Attributes (DA)" query.
(send-string-to-terminal "\e[>0c")