From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Arranging for windows of particular dimensions in xdisp-tests
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 15:15:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <864jet3aqw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eddyf27s.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:26:15 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:26:15 +0800
>
> I've just fixed several hangs in redisplay arising from `display'
> objects' being denied sufficient space by a line or wrap prefix, and
> consequently continuation lines being produced in an endless cycle
> inside move_it_to and display_line. Needless to say, tests for such
> bugs require that the windows where they execute be set to a particular
> size, which, considering that ERT tests are expected to run in both
> interactive sessions and in the initial frame, appears to be impossible.
>
> Ideas? Thanks in advance.
Our capabilities for testing display code in batch mode are very
limited, almost nonexistent. So I suggest to add these tests to
test/manual/redisplay-testsuite.el instead -- those can only be run
interactively.
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2024-01-31 6:26 ` Arranging for windows of particular dimensions in xdisp-tests Po Lu
2024-01-31 6:41 ` Jim Porter
2024-01-31 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-01-31 14:01 ` Po Lu
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