Subject: bug#11129: 23.4; garbage inserted at the beginning of the buffer when starting Emacs in a terminal on a remote machine

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:19:42 -0400

forcemerge 6758 11129
thanks

>> Start "emacs -Q" on a remote machine with a slow connection, well...
>> a high latency (e.g. ADSL during a file transfer).
> [...]
> Actually Emacs should be run in an xterm (after connecting to a
> remote machine by ssh).

It's a known problem.  You can work around it by setting
xterm-extra-capabilities to t or nil.

        Stefan