bug#23412: 25.1.50; GUI Emacs on Mac OS X: text is keeping shaking/re-displaying when insert text with external input method

[Alan Third]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 12:21:06PM +0100, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 01:15:04AM +0000, HaiJun Zhang wrote:
> >> 在 2019年10月30日 +0800 AM3:20，Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>，写道：
> >> > 
> >> > I think in C we can get away with just checking whether the new text
> >> > is empty. If there is any text at all then replacing the working text
> >> > seems to do the right thing, even if the new text is shorter than the
> >> > old. I could be wrong, though, I’ve never really used these input
> >> > methods so don’t know if there are things I’m not testing.
> >> > 
> >> > New patch attached, please try it and let me know how it goes.
> >>
> >> It works perfectly now. Thanks.
> >
> > Thank you for finding the root cause! I’ve pushed the change to
> > master, so it should be available in Emacs 27 now.
> 
> That was five weeks ago.  If the issue has been fixed, should we also
> go ahead and close this bug report?

I thought I had, if you look at the cc list you might notice why it
didn’t. :)

A new wrinkle has been found, though, so it’s probably not worth
closing this and creating a new bug report, so I’d leave it open for
now if that’s OK.
-- 
Alan Third