Re: ns-do-applescript again

[Po Lu]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>     Po> What was previously found to still use `ns-do-applescript'?  The
>     Po> function should really be deleted, ideally before the Emacs 29 branch 
> is
>     Po> cut.  It is simply a waste of space in nsfns.m and is probably the 
> cause
>     Po> of a mysterious crash in popup menus.
>
> bug#58288 still reproduces wiht ns-do-applescript removed. Could you 
> elaborate?

Something inside the popup event loop checks for timers (I'm borrowing
someone's fully set up Mac, so the problematic Lisp code is likely not
in Emacs core); then, the nested event loop run by ns-do-applescript
inside a timer crashes.