From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 03:57:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (terminal-init-xterm): Discard pending input before reading a reply to
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~1239
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=56f37e53c9713f1ff3823bfd649cf2c9827d6068;p=emacs.git

(terminal-init-xterm): Discard pending input before reading a reply to
the terminal attributes query.
---

diff --git a/lisp/term/xterm.el b/lisp/term/xterm.el
index b01adf4995b..e893f88da50 100644
--- a/lisp/term/xterm.el
+++ b/lisp/term/xterm.el
@@ -473,6 +473,9 @@
     (let ((coding-system-for-read 'binary)
 	  (chr nil)
 	  (str nil))
+      ;; Pending input can be mistakenly returned by the calls to
+      ;; read-event below.  Discard it.
+      (discard-input)
       ;; Try to find out the type of terminal by sending a "Secondary
       ;; Device Attributes (DA)" query.
       (send-string-to-terminal "\e[>0c")