Subject: bug#78474: 31.0.50; Wrong char insertion in rxvt

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:43:19 +0300

> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:34:22 +0200
> From: Samuel Thibault <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Seb Hinderer <[email-masked]>, [email-masked],
> 	[email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Eli Zaretskii, le lun. 21 juil. 2025 18:12:25 +0300, a ecrit:
> > > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:35:05 +0200
> > > From: Seb Hinderer <[email-masked]>
> > > Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
> > > 	[email-masked]
> > > 
> > > This leads me to the suggestion that the configuration where tab is not
> > > used is the one enabled by default, leaving the configuraitn burden to
> > > those to whom performance matters enough for them to care.
> > 
> > I see where you're coming from, but IMO such a change can only fly if
> > we enabled this new behavior when some screen-reading software is in
> > use.  And that requires some means for Emacs to detect this.  If
> > someone knows how to do that on Posix systems, please speak up.
> 
> That does not exist in terminals, only in graphical sessions

How come?  Screen readers should announce themselves quite prominently
to any system, so I'd be very surprised to hear that they are
invisible on Linux terminals.