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23.3; emacs -nw doesn't always restore the terminal screen

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: 10959 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.3; emacs -nw doesn't always restore the terminal screen
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:25:16 +0100

On 2012-03-06 16:01:04 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> When run in a terminal (at least in xterm, aterm and gnome-terminal),
> emacs doesn't always restore the terminal screen (it remains in the
> alternate screen). This can be reproduced, but not always, with:
> 
>   for i in `seq 1 200`
>   do
>     emacs -Q -nw --eval '(save-buffers-kill-terminal)'
>   done
> 
> One sees that the screen isn't restored as expected. You can increase
> the number of iterations to have a better chance to reproduce the bug.

This bug might be a consequence of

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646798

but I don't know how to test...

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