Bug#913237: xterm: exec-formatted yields a tilde character in zsh and emacs

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2018-11-21 19:02:33 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> I don't see how this could happen unless you combined the action with
> some pasting (such as bracketed-paste).

I paste nothing.

> xterm's formatting of the string is shell-agnostic, and the exec'd
> "browser" command would only depend on what the formatted URL looked
> like.
> 
> In either case, steps-to-reproduce seem obscure.

With zsh, one can reproduce the issue with:

$ xterm -e zsh -f

then in the xterm:

zira% bindkey -e

What's strange is that in the Xterm log, I can get either ^G~, or
just ~, or nothing.

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