Subject: bug#20951: closed (Re: bug#20951: 25.0.50; emacs -nw hangs during startup)

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 14:52:02 +0000

Your bug report

#20951: 25.0.50; emacs -nw hangs during startup

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#20951: 25.0.50; emacs -nw hangs during startup
From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
To: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 10:51:07 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> emacs -nw -Q, run from an xterm terminal, appears to hang during startup
> before it finishes displaying the *scratch* buffer.

Should be fixed now, thanks,

        Stefan

Subject: 25.0.50; emacs -nw hangs during startup
From: Ken Brown <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:42:50 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

emacs -nw -Q, run from an xterm terminal, appears to hang during startup
before it finishes displaying the *scratch* buffer.  I have to kill it
from another terminal.  A bisection shows that the problem started with
the following commit:

commit cc8f96e6e19ad3f56631f432e088590a8cf8535d
Author: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date:   Tue Jun 30 23:20:29 2015 -0400

     * lisp/term/xterm.el (xterm--query): Avoid generating garbage

     (xterm-query-timeout): New var.
     (xterm--query): Use it.  Fallback on async method if we timeout before
     getting the first byte of the reply (bug#12354).

In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.11 (x86_64-unknown-cygwin, GTK+ Version 3.14.13)
  of 2015-07-01 on moufang
Repository revision: 3d759f4f6f2a20abbc05225a55d35c5daf093ff6
Windowing system distributor `The Cygwin/X Project', version 11.0.11701000
Configured using:
  `configure 'CFLAGS=-g3 -O0''

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL
GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
GTK3 X11

Important settings:
   value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
   tooltip-mode: t
   global-eldoc-mode: t
   electric-indent-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
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