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25.0.50; emacsclient -c "breaks" 256-color display in server

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From: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22154 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22154: 25.0.50;
 emacsclient -c "breaks" 256-color display in server
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:26:10 -0800

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On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:51 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > I assume you meant `tty-color-mode-alist'.
>
> No, I meant the value returned by tty-color-alist, which is stored in
> the variable tty-defined-color-alist.

Aha!  As Emily Litella says, "That's quite different" :-)

So I added some "message" calls, as described by the attached patch.
Here's what I see in *Messages* after simply running `emacs -Q`:

    terminal-init-xterm doin’ its thang.  (tty-color-alist) returns a
list of length 8.
    terminal-init-xterm is done.  (tty-color-alist) now returns a list
of length 256.
    For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

And here's what I see after I create the new frame:

    You can run the command ‘server-start’ with M-x ser-s RET
    terminal-init-xterm doin’ its thang.  (tty-color-alist) returns a
list of length 256.
    terminal-init-xterm is done.  (tty-color-alist) now returns a list
of length 8.
    When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0

So clearly: xterm.el initialization _is_ getting called for the client
frame, and it _does_ modify tty-color-alist.

I've put the actual before-and-after values returned from
`(tty-color-alist)' into a second attachment, since the "before" value
is quite long.

[0001-Add-some-debugging-to-terminal-init-xterm.patch (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

[after.el (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

[before.el (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

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