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

[Chunyang Xu]

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 3:16 AM, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
> Chunyang Xu <xuchunyang.me@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> For example, when I try to insert "中文" with "zhongwen" via the
>> built-in Pinyin input method, "zhongwen" is keep shaking, here is a
>> video of this very annoying behavior:
>>
>> https://youtu.be/56oLXo2wwJQ
>>
>> It looks like only Emacs has this problem, other apps like TextEdit works 
>> fine.
>>
>> I have following font setting in my init.el and don't set any Chinese
>> font manually.
>>
>> ;; Font#
>> (set-face-attribute 'default nil
>>                     :font "Source Code Pro-13")
>>
>> Let me know if I need to provide more information.
>
> Hi, I'm not sure what you mean by "external input method"? Is it
> something outside of Emacs? An OS X setting?

I meant ”Pinyin - Simplified“ input method, which is shipped with the
OS X system. Yes and Yes.

> How are you setting your input method?

- Open System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Input Sources.
- Click +, search and select "Chinese Simplified", then select the
"Pinyin - Simplified" input method
- Click Add

> Can you please try running emacs without any configuration and seeing if
> you get the same issue? You can do this at the command line by typing
> something like:
>
> Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q

Get the same issue.

> --
> Alan Third