Subject: Re: bug#19718: read_filtered_event echos mouse events until character is inputted

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:40:12 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> It is the normal echoing, but read-char-exclusive ignores non-character
>> events, so...  why is it echoing them?
>
> Because the echoing happens on a much lower level?

So it's not on purpose, but just because that function uses lower-level
functions that have this behaviour?

Then perhaps those should be amended to allow inhibiting this echoing?

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