GNU bug report logs - #79070
[PATCH] Fix macOS dictation post NSTextInputClient migration in v30

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alvaro Ramirez <alvaro <at> xenodium.com>
Cc: gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, shipmints <at> gmail.com, 79070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kickingvegas <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#79070: [PATCH] Fix macOS dictation post NSTextInputClient migration in v30
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:45:53 +0300

> From: Alvaro Ramirez <alvaro <at> xenodium.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com,
>   79070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  kickingvegas <at> gmail.com,  stefankangas <at> gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:15:27 +0100
> 
> 
> Alvaro Ramirez <alvaro <at> xenodium.com> writes:
> 
> >  On 22 Jul 2025, at 15:23, Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com> 
> >  wrote:
> >
> >  On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 
> >  wrote:
> >
> >  > From: Alvaro Ramirez <alvaro <at> xenodium.com>
> >  > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:00:18 +0100
> >  > Cc: Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com>,
> >  >  Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
> >  >  79070 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
> >  >  kickingvegas <at> gmail.com,
> >  >  stefankangas <at> gmail.com
> >  >
> >  > +1 I’d like to propose we treat macOS 12.7.6 / Intel as a 
> >  > separate issue if that’s ok?
> >
> >  If that is what we want to do, then the PROBLEMS entry should 
> >  be
> >  updated to say that older versions of macOS are not supported 
> >  by this
> >  feature in Emacs.
> >
> >  But, older than what specific macOS version will be the 
> >  question to answer,
> >
> > We can only go with the information we have available as of 
> > today, given the hardware and macOS versions we have
> > access to. With new data points, we would update this info.
> >
> > I’m happy to update PROBLEMS with the data we know today (maybe 
> > something like “There are reports of this feature
> > being unavailable for macOS 12 users").
> 
> Updated PROBLEMS (attaching 
> 0005-Enabled-macOS-dictation-post-NSTextInputClient-migration.patch)

Thanks, but one of my previous comments, viz.:

  This should explain better what are the indications of the problem.

is still not addressed.

> A tiny bit of additional info with respect to roll back (yields 
> deprecation warning) vs roll forward fix... macOS seems to use a 
> different dictation mechanism after NSTextInputClient was 
> introduced (Emacs v30). Attaching screenshots showing different UI 
> dictation triggered by either patch.

Could you please spell out what that means for Emacs users?

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.