Subject: Re: bug#14615: xterm--query results in slow -nw startup on some terminals

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:26:59 -0400

> There is a noticeable delay (it feels like about 2 seconds) during
> startup during which the scratch buffer is visible, before the README
> file appears. There's plenty of time for me to hit ctrl-g, in which case
> README is never visited. This does not happen in 24.3.

> I imagine it is this change:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2013-03/msg00124.html

Ironic, since this patch makes the code more asynchronous than before
(tho, apparently it somehow makes it more synchronous in your case).

> This is with TERM=xterm-vt220, using (the pretty old) aterm 0.4.2.
> http://www.afterstep.org/aterm.php
> There is no such delay with xterm or xfce4-terminal.

Can you show C-h l after such a slow startup?

        Stefan