test: use emacsclient(1) for Emacs tests

Before the change, every Emacs test ran in a separate Emacs
instance.  Starting Emacs many times wastes considerable time and
it gets worse as the test suite grows.  The patch solves this by
using a single Emacs server and emacsclient(1) to run multiple
tests.  Emacs server is started on the first test_emacs call and
stopped when test_done is called.  We take care not to leave
orphan Emacs processes behind when test is terminated by whatever
reason: Emacs server runs a watchdog that periodically checks
that the test is still running.

Some tests need to provide user input.  Before the change, this
was done using echo(1) to Emacs stdin.  This no longer works and
instead `standard-input' variable is set accordingly to make
`read' return the appropriate string.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/test-lib.el b/test/test-lib.el
index 4e7f5cfc..a7839368 100644
--- a/test/test-lib.el
+++ b/test/test-lib.el
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@
 ;; avoid crazy 10-column default of --batch
 (set-frame-width (window-frame (get-buffer-window)) 80)
 
+;; `read-file-name' by default uses `completing-read' function to read
+;; user input.  It does not respect `standard-input' variable which we
+;; use in tests to provide user input.  So replace it with a plain
+;; `read' call.
+(setq read-file-name-function (lambda (&rest _) (read)))
+
 (defun notmuch-test-wait ()
   "Wait for process completion."
   (while (get-buffer-process (current-buffer))
@@ -51,3 +57,10 @@ FILENAME is OUTPUT."
 	  (setq str (concat str (buffer-substring start next-pos))))
 	(setq start next-pos)))
     str))
+
+(defun orphan-watchdog (pid)
+  "Periodically check that the process with id PID is still
+running, quit if it terminated."
+  (if (not (process-attributes pid))
+      (kill-emacs)
+    (run-at-time "1 min" nil 'orphan-watchdog pid)))