Re: Need message-fn arg back in ert-run-tests-interactively

[Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>]

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Hi Guys:

Anyone have any thoughts on this?  Eli or Stefan?  Would be useful in some
updates we'd like to make to the Hyperbole package.

Regards,

Bob


On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 11:49 AM Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org> wrote:

> In ert.el of Emacs 27.1, we have a simple ability to override the
> 'message' function when running ert tests interactively by setting the
> message-fn argument here:
>
> ;; Should OUTPUT-BUFFER-NAME and MESSAGE-FN really be arguments here?
> ;; They are needed only for our automated self-tests at the moment.
> ;; Or should there be some other mechanism?
> ;;;###autoload
> (defun ert-run-tests-interactively (selector
>                                     &optional output-buffer-name
> message-fn)
>
> But in recent Emacs versions this function takes only the selector
> argument, with no clear way of how to override messaging behavior so that a
> message from a test case (rather than ert itself) can remain in the
> minibuffer after a test case finishes:
>
> (defun ert-run-tests-interactively (selector)
>   "Run the tests specified by SELECTOR and display the results in a buffer.
>
> SELECTOR works as described in `ert-select-tests'."
>
> This would be very useful behavior to have back.  Is there any simple way
> to do it now or can you add it back in?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>

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