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when emacs -nw opens a file from term (gnome-terminal, alacritty), there are extra chars like [I

If I move the mouse in and out of the terminal, we get more of these [I[I[I

(the brackets can be paired when using smartparens)

I resolved this to some extent with -Q and by removing for smartparens
(sp-pair "[" "]" :wrap "M-[")

from reading a post where someone had discovered that was the culprit.

however, running nnn filemanager, sometimes requires moving to the $EDITOR which is emacs -nw and neither of the above has any effect and I'm getting at the beginning.:
65;7202;1c

If I set EDITOR=mg, it opens cleanly with no issues.

I would like to know:

  1. what is causing this behavior
  2. what those chars are (some ascii codes?)
  3. how to stop it
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    What is TERM set to? what happens when you use xterm?
    – nega
    Aug 16 at 15:13
  • TERM=xterm-256color and xterm does NOT cause the same problem. could it be because the color setting on TERM applies properly to xterm, but not gnome-terminal?
    – pradesigner
    Aug 18 at 21:58
  • yeah, sounds like a combination of terminal and window manager. a bit surprised about alacritty misbehaving. i really only do Linux remotely anymore, so my best advice is 1) make sure TERM=xterm-256color is set, and use an "old" terminal (ie. xterm/aterm/rxvt/urxvt). i've never found the VTE based terminals to be any good
    – nega
    Aug 19 at 3:54
  • for what it's worth, i dropped alacritty, and kitty. both were good, but there was too much "special casing" w/ various apps. now if i have a choice my descending choice is foot → st → urxvt → xterm
    – nega
    Aug 19 at 4:02

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