Subject: Re: bug#20356: 25.0.50; Strange terminal glyphs in emacs -nw in recent master

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:07:46 -0400

> The value of `str` after the first while loop is "83;40100;0"
> here.  This is what screen reports, and version is set to 240 in this

Wait, so you're not just running within gnome-terminal, but within
screen within gnome-terminal?
I guess that's the crux of the matter.  The code actually needs support
from the actual terminal (i.e gnome-terminal in this case), but the
version check is only told about screen's version.

Hmm...

        Stefan