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26.2; OSC 52 paste in term/xterm.el not working

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: phst <at> google.com, daniel <at> ekloef.se, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 36879 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36879: 26.2; OSC 52 paste in term/xterm.el not working
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 14:52:13 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 13:41:03 +0200
> Cc: Philipp Stephani <phst <at> google.com>,
>  Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 36879 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> The question is rather, how did this code ever work in the first
> place? As you observed, when XTerm sends the reply, it uses BEL as
> terminator. Emacs uses BEL (C-g) as INTR char, which means that not
> only is special effort required to avoid having it quit the current
> elisp code -- this could have been done using inhibit-quit -- but when
> the pty receives the BEL from XTerm, it immediately discards unread
> characters and raises SIGINT.

You are saying that TTY frames cannot handle inhibit-quit correctly?

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