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| -rw-r--r-- | test/README | 10 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | test/emacs | 5 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 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 @@ -1,10 +1,5 @@ #!/usr/bin/env bash -# Note: 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_description="emacs interface" . test-lib.sh |