(terminal-init-xterm): Discard pending input before reading a reply to

the terminal attributes query.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

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")