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23.1; emacsclient -t leaves terminal in an odd state if daemon not started

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Philip Armstrong <phil <at> kantaka.co.uk>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; emacsclient -t leaves terminal in an odd state if daemon not started
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:29:29 +0000

If I start emacsclient like, without the emacs deamon already running:

$ emacsclient -t
or
$ emacsclient -t <filename>

and then press pagedown, emacs inserts the string "6~" into the buffer
at point.

If the emacs daemon has already started, or I use emacsclient -c to
open a new frame (-c) without the daemon being started, then pagedown
works just fine.

I've seen this bug both on emacs 23 in current Debian unstable, and
with one compiled from sources (ports) on OS X.


In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.2)
 of 2009-11-02 on raven, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10605000
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

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

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

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

Recent input:
<escape> x r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return>

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Message #10 received at 5095 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Philip Armstrong <phil <at> kantaka.co.uk>
Cc: 5095 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 23.1; emacsclient -t leaves terminal in an odd state if daemon not started
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:16:45 -0500

> If I start emacsclient like, without the emacs deamon already running:
>
> $ emacsclient -t
> or
> $ emacsclient -t <filename>
>
> and then press pagedown, emacs inserts the string "6~" into the buffer
> at point.

If there is no server present, you should get an error message like
this:

  emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
  To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
  emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor.  Please use:

        --socket-name
        --server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
        --alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)

Please provide a self-contained recipe for reproducing this bug.

Message #15 received at 5095 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Philip Armstrong <phil <at> kantaka.co.uk>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 5095 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1; emacsclient -t leaves terminal in an odd state if daemon
 not started
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 23:08:14 +0000

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 04:16:45PM -0500, Chong Yidong wrote:
>> If I start emacsclient like, without the emacs deamon already running:
>>
>> $ emacsclient -t
>> or
>> $ emacsclient -t <filename>
>>
>> and then press pagedown, emacs inserts the string "6~" into the buffer
>> at point.
>
>If there is no server present, you should get an error message like
>this:
>
>  emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
>  To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
>  emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor.  Please use:
>
>        --socket-name
>        --server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
>        --alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)
>
>Please provide a self-contained recipe for reproducing this bug.

I've set ALTERNATE_EDITOR to "", so emacsclient starts the server
automatically if it's not already running & then connects to it once
started.

Phil

-- 
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Message #18 received at 5095 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Cc: 5095 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1;
	emacsclient -t leaves terminal in an odd state if daemon not started
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:58:11 -0500

Anyone have any idea about Bug#5095?  I can reproduce this:

emacs --daemon
emacsclient -t
[up]               =>     "M-o A is undefined"

Subsequent function keystrokes are handled correctly.

So it appears that the input-decode-map is not set up properly for the
very first keystroke on a terminal frame created by the daemon.  But
I've no clue why.

Message #21 received at 5095 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Philip Armstrong <phil <at> kantaka.co.uk>
Cc: 5095 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1;
	emacsclient -t leaves terminal in an odd state if daemon not started
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:05:29 -0700

> I've set ALTERNATE_EDITOR to ""
>
> $ emacsclient -t
> or
> $ emacsclient -t <filename>
>
> and then press pagedown, emacs inserts the string "6~" into the buffer
> at point.

I've checked a fix for this bug into the repository.

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