GNU bug report logs - #6758
23.2; xterm.el: please provide an option to not discard input in terminal-init-xterm

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jim Paris <jim <at> jtan.com>

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 8482, 11129

Found in versions 23.2, 23.4

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 6758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Johan Bockgård <bojohan <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 6758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jim Paris <jim <at> jtan.com>
Subject: Re: bug#6758: 23.2;
	xterm.el: please provide an option to not discard input in
	terminal-init-xterm
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:38:43 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> OTOH, I thought we had agreed that we need to add a configuration
> variable xterm-turn-on-modify-other-keys which could be set to t or nil
> to force the modifyOtherKeys feature of Xterm ON or OFF without first
> checking whether the current xterm indeed supports it or not.
> Its default value would be `auto', which would first check for support
> and then turn it ON if applicable.
> Since the "discard input" is needed for the check, this would solve
> your problem.
>
> Now, I don't see such a variable, so either I misremeber, or the patch
> was never written, or never committed, ...

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-08/msg01276.html
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