Re: Emacs 23.1 flushes stdin on startup

[Stefan Monnier]

> Please see bug#4234, I have a patch there to allow emacs to read the
> background color from xterm so that it can set the correct
> background-mode (and not just default to 'light).
> When that code is allowed to be checked in,
> `xterm-enable-modify-other-keys' will not be appropriate anymore.
> Maybe `xterm-enable-terminal-query' ?

The problem is that we don't want to control whether we query or not,
but also the decision we take based on the (expected) result.
So maybe your code should use a similar xterm-background-mode which can
be set to `dark', `light' or `check'.


        Stefan