Subject: Re: bug#8838: tty-run-terminal-initialization fails

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:03:01 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:15:25 -0400
> 
> Package: emacs
> 
> With the current trunk on GNU/Linux:
> 
> TERM=xterm-vt220 emacs -Q -nw
> 
> gives an error at startup:
> 
> tty-run-terminal-initialization: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

What kind of beast is xterm-vt220?  How is it different from xterm?