[PATCH v2] test: Unset ALTERNATE_EDITOR before running emacsclient

[Tomi Ollila]

On Tue, Dec 29 2015, Michal Sojka <sojkam1 at fel.cvut.cz> wrote:

> ALTERNATE_EDITOR causes emacsclient to run an alternate editor if the
> emacs server is not ready. This can collide with intended
> functionality in test-lib.sh.
>
> If the ALTERNATE_EDITOR is set but empty, emacsclient runs emacs
> daemon and tries to connect to it. When this happens the emacs run by
> test-lib.sh fails to start the server and the subsequent attempts to
> use the server fail because the daemon started by emacsclient does not
> know about notmuch-test-progn. This leads to test suite failure due to
> time out on any emacs test.
> ---

LGTM.
Tomi


>  test/test-lib.sh | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh
> index 126911f..270c718 100644
> --- a/test/test-lib.sh
> +++ b/test/test-lib.sh
> @@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ unset CDPATH
>  
>  unset GREP_OPTIONS
>  
> +# For emacsclient
> +unset ALTERNATE_EDITOR
> +
>  # Convenience
>  #
>  # A regexp to match 5 and 40 hexdigits
> -- 
> 2.6.4
>
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