Subject: Re: bug#7512: 24.0.50; emacs -Q -nw -eval '(view-lossage)' shows phantom chars under xterm

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:04:04 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> See xterm.el:terminal-init-xterm, search for send-string-to-terminal.
> In a nutshell, we send special commands to the terminal to find out
> about its capabilities.

And it's scarcely worth it to try to remove these characters from
lossage, so feel free to close this bug.