From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Testing redisplay code in batch
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:51:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838sd0uy0h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvlfh0tk6v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:37:50 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:37:50 -0400
>
> Indeed. In the past I was thinking (abstractly) of much more demanding
> circumstances, but for this specific test, all I need is to know the
> `window-start`, so the corresponding data is already exposed to Lisp.
> I don't know if that makes it easy enough to implement it without
> significant work.
What about running a second instance of Emacs as a subprocess,
starting it without -batch? On a Posix system, that would use a PTY,
which supposedly will look to the sub-Emacs as a text-mode display.
Then at least the features that don't require GUI capabilities could
be tested. Does that make sense?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-23 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-23 3:56 Testing redisplay code in batch Stefan Monnier
2020-09-23 10:34 ` Phil Sainty
2020-09-23 23:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-24 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 10:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2020-09-23 13:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-23 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-23 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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