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23.2; Emacs 23.1 flushes stdin on startup

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From: kop <at> meme.com (Karl O. Pinc)
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: "David F. Skoll" <dfs <at> roaringpenguin.com>
Subject: 23.2; Emacs 23.1 flushes stdin on startup
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:14:12 -0500

Hi,

When I start emacs with "emacs -nw" emacs flushes stdin -- I cannot type
while emacs is starting and expect emacs to pick up what I type.
Usually I'm typing C-x,C-f,C-a and so forth to open a file.  Note that I
don't see stdin being flushed with "emacs -Q -nw" or with "emacs -q -nw"
-- or so it seems, perhaps I don't type fast enough.  I did not have
problems with emacs22 flushing stdin.

This is annoying because I almost always start emacs whenever I ssh to
another host, when I (re)start work on a project, and so forth.  I start
emacs at least several times a day.  Some of the boxes I work with are
quite limited in resources and I've been able to generate quite a bit of
typeahead while emacs is starting.  I don't want to have to put my brain
on hold while emacs starts.

At least one other person has found it annoying as well.  See
this thread on help-gnu-emacs:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2009-08/msg00134.html
The thread appears to point out the source of the problem and
gives indications of what might be done to fix it.
I have since contacted the author of the email which started the
thread and he has been unable to solve the problem even with the
help supplied him by help-gnu-emacs. 

FYI, I see nothing in
http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/emacs-23/annotate/head:/etc/PROBLEMS
or http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text, section 6
regarding this problem.

Thanks for the software.

Regards,



In GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
 of 2010-12-11 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--build' '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/23.2/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.2/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  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_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
ESC [ > 1 ; 2 4 0 3 ; 0 c o r TAB ` ESC x r e p o r 
TAB RET

Recent messages:
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latex-cjk-common.el (source)...
Loading cjk-enc...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latex-cjk-common.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50latex-cjk-thai.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs23/site-start.d/50psgml-init.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50psvn.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50sawfish.el (source)...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50thailatex.el (source)...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
mouse-2, RET: Push this button

Load-path shadows:
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/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-dtd hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-dtd
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-init hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-init
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-info hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-info
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-charent hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-charent
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-ids hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-ids
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/psgml/psgml hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-sysdep hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-sysdep
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-other hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-other
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-html hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-html
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-edit hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-edit
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-parse hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/psgml/psgml-parse
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-simple-indent hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-simple-indent
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-site-file hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-site-file
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-c hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-c
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-mode hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-mode
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-doc hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-doc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-cabal hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-cabal
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-indentation hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-indentation
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/inf-haskell hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/inf-haskell
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-hugs hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-hugs
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-decl-scan hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-decl-scan
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-font-lock hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-font-lock
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-ghci hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-ghci
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-indent hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/haskell-mode/haskell-indent
/usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp/debian-startup hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/textmodes/flyspell
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/textmodes/ispell
/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/latex-cjk-thai/thai-word hides /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/language/thai-word

Features:
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