ert-font-lock improvements

ert-font-lock improvements

[Vladimir Kazanov]

Hi all,

Some time ago an extension for ERT (the built-in unit testing system)
was merged: ert-font-lock, a tool for syntax highlighting tests.

A couple of weeks ago certain problems (see bug#69714) with
ert-font-lcok were raised, and I've also accumulated a few
quality-of-life improvements for the tool.

Could somebody please take a look at the patch and merge it if it's
okay? Bug author and myself did some testing and the changes proposed
do solve a lot of problems for us.

Thanks,
Vlad

--
Regards,

Vladimir Kazanov

Re: ert-font-lock improvements

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Vladimir Kazanov <vekazanov@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 08:49:56 +0000
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Some time ago an extension for ERT (the built-in unit testing system)
> was merged: ert-font-lock, a tool for syntax highlighting tests.
> 
> A couple of weeks ago certain problems (see bug#69714) with
> ert-font-lcok were raised, and I've also accumulated a few
> quality-of-life improvements for the tool.
> 
> Could somebody please take a look at the patch and merge it if it's
> okay? Bug author and myself did some testing and the changes proposed
> do solve a lot of problems for us.

Don't worry, it is in my queue.

(You've posted the patch less than a week ago, so it's too early to
worry about it.)

Re: ert-font-lock improvements

[Vladimir Kazanov]

Got it, sorry for distracting.

Also, having that merged, I have something like an emacs-devel-wide
announcement of the tool in mind, looking for builtin major modes that
would benefit from having more syntax highlighting tests. That is, I
would provide the initial sets of tests myself. What do you think?

Thank you for you work

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 at 11:34, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Vladimir Kazanov <vekazanov@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 08:49:56 +0000
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Some time ago an extension for ERT (the built-in unit testing system)
> > was merged: ert-font-lock, a tool for syntax highlighting tests.
> >
> > A couple of weeks ago certain problems (see bug#69714) with
> > ert-font-lcok were raised, and I've also accumulated a few
> > quality-of-life improvements for the tool.
> >
> > Could somebody please take a look at the patch and merge it if it's
> > okay? Bug author and myself did some testing and the changes proposed
> > do solve a lot of problems for us.
>
> Don't worry, it is in my queue.
>
> (You've posted the patch less than a week ago, so it's too early to
> worry about it.)



-- 
Regards,

Vladimir Kazanov

Re: ert-font-lock improvements

[John ff]

-------- Original Message --------
From: Vladimir Kazanov <vekazanov@gmail.com>
Sent: Thu Mar 21 08:49:56 GMT 2024
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Troy Brown <brownts@troybrown.dev>
Subject: ert-font-lock improvements

Hi all,

Some time ago an extension for ERT (the built-in unit testing system)
was merged: ert-font-lock, a tool for syntax highlighting tests.

A couple of weeks ago certain problems (see bug#69714) with
ert-font-lcok were raised, and I've also accumulated a few
quality-of-life improvements for the tool.

Could somebody please take a look at the patch and merge it if it's
okay? Bug author and myself did some testing and the changes proposed
do solve a lot of problems for us.

Thanks,
Vlad

--
Regards,

Vladimir Kazanov

Re: ert-font-lock improvements

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Vladimir Kazanov <vekazanov@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:09:48 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, brownts@troybrown.dev
> 
> Also, having that merged, I have something like an emacs-devel-wide
> announcement of the tool in mind, looking for builtin major modes that
> would benefit from having more syntax highlighting tests. That is, I
> would provide the initial sets of tests myself. What do you think?

Feel free to post the announcement, sure.