Where is this AppleScript gibberish bug being tracked, if it is actually being tracked?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254514861

@brympton writes:

“I think I am experiencing the same problem although to be specific this only occurs in automator with the Run AppleScript or Run JavaScript library items. In a new or populated script I start typing and after a few words get 3 periods automatically entered and/or the cursor jumps to a different location.”

It looks like it's trying to autocomplete, but failing. It has a life of its own. I'm writing an AppleScript inside an Automator QuickAction.

iMac (2017 – 2020)

Posted on Dec 6, 2023 11:03 AM

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VikingOSX

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Posted on Dec 6, 2023 2:10 PM

This text entry issue in a Run AppleScript action has been ongoing for several releases of macOS now. Not just in Automator, but also in Shortcuts. I have filed a bug report early on with Apple and apparently it was ignored.

My workaround is to ensure that all the AppleScript code that I enter is done in Apple's Script Editor first, and after I compile to catch syntax, but not necessarily runtime issues. Then, I copy/paste that into the Run AppleScript action and click its associated compile hammer icon. Life is too short to try to power your way through the auto-injected … nonsense.

And, where I can get the coding job done without AppleScript, I avoid it like the plague, or incorporate it into functions (osascript) in a Run Shell Script with the Zsh shell.

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