Re: emacs -nw inserts unwanted chars if user is impatient

[Chong Yidong]

Paul R <address@hidden> writes:

> I usually work on X version of emacs 23. However, sometime, I just want
> to alter a config file from the terminal. In this case I type 
>
>    emacs -nw conf_file.conf
>
> Very often I know that the line I want to go to is fairly low so before
> emacs has finished to load I'm already pressing C-n waiting for the
> display to show line and point. I guess a lot of user do the same and
> often don't wait for the display to finish before typing what they want.

Probably the key sequence is getting registered before the keyboard
translation is set up properly.  Emacs probably needs to discard this
input instead of trying to deal with it.

Could you file a bug so that we don't forget about this?