bug#10959: 23.3; emacs -nw doesn't always restore the terminal screen

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2012-03-06 16:01:04 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> When run in a terminal (at least in xterm, aterm and gnome-terminal),
> emacs doesn't always restore the terminal screen (it remains in the
> alternate screen). This can be reproduced, but not always, with:
> 
>   for i in `seq 1 200`
>   do
>     emacs -Q -nw --eval '(save-buffers-kill-terminal)'
>   done
> 
> One sees that the screen isn't restored as expected. You can increase
> the number of iterations to have a better chance to reproduce the bug.
[...]

This problem still occurs with GNU Emacs 23.4.1 from the Debian
package emacs23 23.4+1-2 (tested in xterm).

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