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

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:17:43 -0400

Stefan Monnier wrote:

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

`t' is an undocumented setting for xterm-extra-capabilities.
(Also, the doc-string has an incomplete first line.)
Also, sounds like there should be a PROBLEM (and/or NEWS) entry
about this.