From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17797: 24.3; Include ert-buffer.el in Emacs Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:00:26 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87y4wvk6fd.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17154"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 17797@debbugs.gnu.org, Thorsten Jolitz To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 23 05:01:36 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kVnKh-0004Ka-4k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2020 05:01:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50144 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVnKg-0000DQ-6q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41656) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVnKA-0000Cq-HY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:42851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kVnK9-0001Fl-UV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:01:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kVnK9-0006AK-RL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:01:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 03:01:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17797 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 17797-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17797.160342203523653 (code B ref 17797); Fri, 23 Oct 2020 03:01:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17797) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Oct 2020 03:00:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54397 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kVnJj-00069R-75 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:00:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ed1-f42.google.com ([209.85.208.42]:41586) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kVnJh-000697-BD for 17797@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ed1-f42.google.com with SMTP id l24so103531edj.8 for <17797@debbugs.gnu.org>; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:00:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:in-reply-to:references:user-agent :mime-version:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=A0CRr6BJoWlBwVum59IZcmACC5OmuhVp5RtHpQfNVlg=; b=RejcMVt2IP5JkxqscAhTtH2bLxk0Xrs2tiuqoFhcKxVIAKw28kFdMXX8fneAEefUSM Jr9LvOIpSq3dmHjdaOu5QEwhIUJxACjPpPC1CKz4BGXy6na3dwUdLGSG54crRUz9rw5f Aqa25otLfMju32yFet6w1lWzKzQYGahzrrABbrmoVXcieRY1caCkSKBHUFBvev/NqAFJ GXSggImZ9BYhk63pyc4/DCioAYmqx5weGmFlb1f7X7vHOsudYnejy3tDfUe9NEEx04mv Ab64KksbsoscJmZFbWewRJLlDuGM9NQtCXK0GzQQj8NJPy342N6e6R9tsE9ue609N0DS QGWA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530CvlmElmYq9tIOmw5+KMBAIXMIXQuUgd//KXu2YsZjPINECPxP ht/k/QWfHxzXNSQxurpsn3Yw94QxxBNRSSz3b3I= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwfixKsV8T0Us7poGIO1dHxX9qvkYMmz2duC3fZPMHg2ULAArEJTw4s6gP2PHQj2sEnSPg8hLJEY6Yo2F7/6RU= X-Received: by 2002:aa7:c259:: with SMTP id y25mr241341edo.249.1603422027377; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:00:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:00:26 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:46:41 -0400") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:191332 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> The library 'ert-buffer.el', which does not seem to have a repository >> nor to be included in any package repo, but can easily be found via a >> web-search, offers some fundamental extensions to ERT functionality in >> Emacs core and should thus be included in core. > > I don't have a strong opinion either way because I don't know this area > well enough to judge how useful this can be. So whoever thinks this is > a good or a bad idea, please chime in, This seems to be: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/tools/editors/emacs/tests/ert-buffer.el I'm not sure that this is useful for general use. It has some interesting ideas, but I'm not a big fan of the forms you seem to end up with: ;; (should (ert-equal-buffer '(insert "foo") ;; ; Insertion of "foo"... ;; (concat ert-Buf-point-char ert-Buf-mark-char) ;; ; ...into an empty buffer with point and mark... ;; (concat ert-Buf-mark-char "foo" ;; ert-Buf-point-char))) ;; ; ...should result in a buffer containing "foo" ;; ; with point and mark moved appropriately.