Subject: 23.0.91; emacsclient loses keybindings after terminal suspend/resume under screen

From: Jakob Krainz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:07:29 +0100 (CET)

When I start "emacsclient -t" under GNU screen,
then suspend it (with C-z) and resume again, it stops
understanding the arrow keys.

Instead it starts echoing error messages like
M-[ b is undefined

The value of $TERM is:
$ echo $TERM
screen

In GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.1)
 of 2009-03-22 on ente.hawo.stw.uni-erlangen.de
configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=no' '--without-x' '--prefix=/home/jakob/emacs' '--enable-asserts' '--without-dbus' 'CFLAGS=-O -pipe -march=pentium4 -g' 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/pkg/lib' 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/pkg/include''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.ISO8859-15
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
  show-paren-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t