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| author |  Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> | 2011-07-04 08:07:19 +0400 |
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| committer |  David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> | 2011-09-10 10:12:03 -0300 |
| commit | 0db3a4d5be93710837962b8260420cfc5a8b968e (patch) | |
| tree | a51ffe634c1de497f1706d3ebcb5c1c5751ff2c4 /test/README | |
| parent | c35ac0bdbd51ddc606cbeb35e8b7b86e450b4b74 (diff) | |
test: update documentation for test_emacs in test/README
Update test_emacs documentation in test/README according to the latest
changes in emacs tests. Move the note regarding setting variables
from test/emacs to test/README.
Diffstat (limited to 'test/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | test/README | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/test/README b/test/README index f9ac6073..a245bf12 100644 --- a/test/README +++ b/test/README @@ -181,9 +181,13 @@ library for your script to use. This function executes the provided emacs lisp script within emacs. The script can be a sequence of emacs lisp expressions, - (that is, they will be evaluated within a progn form). The lisp - expressions can call `message' to generate output on stdout to be - examined by the calling test script. + (that is, they will be evaluated within a progn form). Emacs + stdout and stderr is not available, the common way to get output + is to save it to a file. There are some auxiliary functions + useful in emacs tests provided in test-lib.el. Do not use `setq' + for setting variables in Emacs tests because it affects other + tests that may run in the same Emacs instance. Use `let' instead + so the scope of the changed variables is limited to a single test. test_done |