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From: Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
Cc: 16854@debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#16854: 24.3.50; ert-run-tests-interactively t selector not working
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:00:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wqgkvce0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbw5dmk6.fsf@yahoo.fr> (Nicolas Richard's message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:58:17 +0100")

On Mon, Feb 24 2014, Nicolas Richard wrote:

> Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> writes:
>> I think now that using read instead of intern should work fine: normal
>> test names can be entered with tab completion support and regexps by
>> inserting quotes as needed.  The only remaining annoyance is that spaces
>> must be inserted with C-q SPC.
>
> Quoting regexps in a minibuffer prompt is somewhat unusual, in
> particular wrt backslashes.

The M-x ert command wants an s-expression as argument and that's not
unusual, e.g. M-: also takes sexps.  The syntax is just the same as for
regular Lisp code.  What is unusual about M-x ert is that candidates for
symbol completion aren't names of functions but names of tests.

Helmut





  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-24 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-23 14:57 bug#16854: 24.3.50; ert-run-tests-interactively t selector not working Helmut Eller
2014-02-23 17:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-02-23 18:16   ` Helmut Eller
2014-02-23 21:16     ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-02-24  6:35       ` Helmut Eller
2014-02-24  6:58         ` Nicolas Richard
2014-02-24 14:00           ` Helmut Eller [this message]
2014-02-26  2:05             ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-02-24 17:51         ` Dmitry Gutov

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