Re: [BUG] gitk assumes availability of `osascript` on macos

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM Robert Scott <lists@humanleg.org.uk> wrote:
>> Tiny one here. On macos, gitk (tested 2.50.1) attempts to call `osascript` so
>> it can focus/raise the UI. But it fails hard if `osascript` isn't present in
>> the $PATH.
>>
>> There are a number of reasons `osascript` might not be available in a
>> particular environment, e.g. if launched from inside a "pure" nix shell, but
>> seeing as it's just a quality-of-life feature it would be nice if failures to
>> call `osascript` could just be ignored.
> 
> A patch[*] was posted to the mailing list years ago which, I believe,
> should fix this problem for you. Unfortunately, the patch was never
> picked up due to the then-maintainer of Gitk being missing-in-action.
> Perhaps the current Gitk maintainer (Cc:'d) will pick up the patch.
> 
> [*]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180724065120.7664-1-sunshine@sunshineco.com/