From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 46351@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46351: 28.0.50; Add convenient way to bypass Eshell's own pipelining
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:17:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fspiaw6q.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h79ymeql.fsf@gmx.de>
Hello,
On Thu 20 Jan 2022 at 07:41PM +01, Michael Albinus wrote:
> However, if I understand your test cases, they check that the eshell
> commands are manipulated as you expect. The tests do not run the
> resulting command itself, checking the output. This is a little bit
> unfortune, because you could check that the output is indeed what you
> expect. And perhaps you could find some constellations, where the output
> is different when using either *| or |. This would be another proof that
> your changes work.
>
> And this would also give some guidance, where your approach has
> limitations (if exist). Showing also *failing* tests in one way or
> another is always a benefit. Your tests use only should, there is no
> should-not or should-error.
>
> Another benefit of testing working examples and their output is
> documentation. I always have trouble to understand documentation of
> unknown (to me) features in Emacs. I have the attitude to run the
> respective ert tests, and to study how the feature is applied by its
> developer. Often, it is more instructive than documentation, and I can
> steal the code.
I hadn't thought of tests as specifically useful alongside
documentation. Thank you. I will include some additional tests of this
nature in my next revision.
--
Sean Whitton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-20 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-06 20:06 bug#46351: 28.0.50; Add convenient way to bypass Eshell's own pipelining Sean Whitton
2021-02-07 9:17 ` Michael Albinus
2021-02-07 19:01 ` Sean Whitton
2021-02-08 10:28 ` Michael Albinus
2021-02-08 18:07 ` Sean Whitton
2021-02-10 11:33 ` Michael Albinus
2021-12-24 21:20 ` Sean Whitton
2021-12-25 13:51 ` Michael Albinus
2021-12-25 22:45 ` Sean Whitton
2021-12-27 14:42 ` Michael Albinus
2021-12-27 18:13 ` Sean Whitton
2021-12-27 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-27 19:21 ` Sean Whitton
2021-12-27 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-27 19:53 ` Sean Whitton
2021-12-27 19:37 ` Michael Albinus
2021-12-27 19:54 ` Sean Whitton
2021-12-28 8:58 ` Michael Albinus
2022-01-18 5:19 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-18 9:49 ` Robert Pluim
2022-01-18 18:27 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-18 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-18 18:40 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-18 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-18 23:16 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-19 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-19 20:39 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-20 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-20 22:16 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-21 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-22 0:16 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-18 18:42 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-19 15:52 ` Michael Albinus
2022-01-19 20:54 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-20 18:41 ` Michael Albinus
2022-01-20 22:17 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2022-01-23 22:39 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-24 9:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-24 14:18 ` Michael Albinus
2022-01-24 20:32 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-24 20:44 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-24 20:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-24 21:42 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-24 21:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-24 22:48 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-24 20:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-25 2:39 ` Jim Porter
2022-01-25 5:33 ` bug#53518: 29.0.50; em-extpipe breaks input of sharp-quoted Lisp symbols Sean Whitton
2022-01-25 8:50 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-25 12:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-25 16:48 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-26 5:38 ` Jim Porter
2022-01-26 13:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-01-25 18:14 ` Jim Porter
2022-01-25 20:01 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-25 20:52 ` Jim Porter
2022-01-25 22:38 ` Sean Whitton
2022-01-25 8:54 ` bug#46351: 28.0.50; Add convenient way to bypass Eshell's own pipelining Michael Albinus
2022-01-25 18:22 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-27 18:26 ` Michael Albinus
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