[PATCH 2/3] test: Add `test_emacs_expect_t'.
Dmitry Kurochkin
dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 06:43:22 PST 2012
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:35:07 +0000, David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:26:41 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry, I still do not understand why we can not implement
> > test_emacs_expect_t() like:
> >
> > result=${test_emacs $@}
> > test_expect_equal $result t
> >
> > Can you please explain?
>
> In the failure case test_expect_equal does:
>
> test_failure_ "$test_subtest_name" "$(diff -u $testname.expected $testname.output)"
>
> that diff output is not useful here, because the test harness doesn't
> have any expected output other than `t' with which to diff the actual
> output.
>
> The emacs-address-cleaning test shows how we will provide expected
> vs. actual output directly from within emacs, making it easier for the
> developer to figure out what went wrong.
Thanks for the explanation.
Regards,
Dmitry
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