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

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ESEric Sunshine <ericsunshine@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 20, 2025, 19:52 UTC
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM Robert Scott <lists@humanleg.org.uk> wrote:
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> 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/
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  2. Eric SunshineSep 20, 2025
  3. Johannes SixtSep 22, 2025
  4. Eric SunshineSep 22, 2025

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