Subject: Re: bug#7276: 23.2; do-applescript can lock Emacs uninterruptedly
From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
To: Daniel Pittman <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:41:29 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello.

This has been fixed in the trunk (what will become Emacs 24.1).

	Jan D.

Daniel Pittman skrev 2010-10-24 06:40:
>
> Evaluating the following code caused Emacs to refuse to return to user
> control; I was unable to interrupt the process in any way:
>
>    (do-applescript "tell application \"unknown app\" to activate")
>
> That popped up the "which application did you mean" dialog, which I cancelled
> with ESC, and Emacs simply never returned from that call.
>
> Regards,
>          Daniel
>
>
>
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