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23.0.90; NS: Hang with do-applescript

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.0.90; NS: Hang with do-applescript
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:36:43 +0900

Steps to reproduce:
  1. $ Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
  2. (do-applescript "choose file") C-j

Result:
  Can't pop down the "Choose a File" window.

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp

In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.6.0, NS apple-appkit-949.43)
 of 2009-02-02 on yamamoto-mitsuharu-no-power-mac-g5.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
configured using `configure  '--with-ns''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ja_JP.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

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Message #12 received at 2153 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: 2153 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: 23.0.90; NS: Hang with do-applescript
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:21:56 +0200

What do you mean "Can't pop down"?  When I try this hitting cancel or  
ok both close the window and hide emacs.  Then there's an error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "AppleScript error 1")
  do-applescript("choose file")
  eval((do-applescript "choose file"))
  eval-last-sexp-1(t)
  eval-last-sexp(t)
  eval-print-last-sexp()
...

What should the behavior be with this applescript?

Message #17 received at 2153 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
To: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 2153 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
        YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: 23.0.90; NS: Hang with do-applescript
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:33:42 +0900

>>>>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:21:56 +0200, Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com> said:

> What do you mean "Can't pop down"?  When I try this hitting cancel
> or ok both close the window and hide emacs.

It doesn't disappear even if I click the "Cancel" or "Choose" button.
It seems to be Leopard-specific.

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp

Message #22 received at 2153 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: 2153 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.90; NS: Hang with do-applescript
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:50:37 +0200

This likely indicates a problem with the ns-do-applescript  
implementation when modal dialogs are presented.

A work-around for the particular case is to use ns-open-file.

I believe the purpose for ns-do-applescript was to send outgoing  
Applescript to other applications, so I'm unsure how important the  
general use-case is, but in any case the bug should be fixed or the  
ns-do-applescript function removed or disabled.

Message #25 received at 2153 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>
To: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 2153 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2153: 23.0.90; NS: Hang with do-applescript
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:35:39 -0500

This seems to be fixed in El Capitan (and I imagine, some amount of
releases before this). I'm going to mark this as unreproducible, but
someone please let me know if this still exists. If no one responds in a
few weeks, I'll close this bug.

Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This likely indicates a problem with the ns-do-applescript implementation when
> modal dialogs are presented.
>
> A work-around for the particular case is to use ns-open-file.
>
> I believe the purpose for ns-do-applescript was to send outgoing Applescript to
> other applications, so I'm unsure how important the general use-case is, but in
> any case the bug should be fixed or the ns-do-applescript function removed or
> disabled.

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