Re: Finding macro-generated ert test definitions

["João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, May 24, 2018, 23:34 Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 May 2018 at 12:50, João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Nothing against this, but can anyone comment on the possiblity of
> > recording actual position information in bytecomp.el, so we wouldn't
> > have this limitation in the first place (and hence wouldn't need to
> > document it)?
>
> Considering Bug#24592, it seems a bit optimistic to expect useful
> position information from the byte compiler


Doesn't seem like a huge showstopper though. That bug is about errors and
warnings, whereas we want the position of the containing top-level form
that originated the named function being compiled. That would be a
considerable improvement already.

I think Michael's suggesting about `definition-name' could help. That
> seems like something that should be mentioned in the elisp manual too,
> somewhere.
>


I didn't fully understand it yet, but I will try that too.

Thanks

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