From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: raman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display test suite Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 08:19:10 -0700 Message-ID: References: <83h9c1lbso.fsf@gnu.org> <577E79AA.2060208@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1467991171 5291 80.91.229.3 (8 Jul 2016 15:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 15:19:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit--Claudel , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 17:19:30 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bLXYu-000779-Pq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:19:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLXYt-0007a0-O3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 11:19:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37700) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLXYm-0007YR-OE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 11:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLXYg-00061Y-Ru for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 11:19:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22c]:35881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLXYg-00061Q-L1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 11:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id hu1so1020324pad.3 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 08:19:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version; bh=ASU+yVsUWpWf4+GDScXoX0V4DHe5WqmC4KYanJhLIv8=; b=lw1Fh6hok5+8Lu50AaJ6jjsJSF5W8Kl6JMIOOPXqoQiCfhvmkKcerjzi7ek6tCh3u2 /1Y7A1lu7wz6JrsCJVCMfxj+sk+Gyv9iE6pyDdUccgehRkvbD1i3qGi6BLn4SAJtG+eP ubjnkgKFcfAKv+vj++j9k0chTM4GGiViyfjbBZuvJE3Y3HcdO/vGQ/R3I12U5vPUT/1s 2L9SOQKT02fspELSi7gOzXiM3C+S0Z2fg9u04B7DLtt4iconDkhym7m7f6423owGNinT vMB7y6l4WUBTykXiuD1N4gg4nYOrc4Xsrb/DEqcBv1CaEas0GxoaZ+7HRDiPtAsgp8T0 Cz3g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version; bh=ASU+yVsUWpWf4+GDScXoX0V4DHe5WqmC4KYanJhLIv8=; b=PrZyAaNxrQ65y8xrCZA1VGBsDflHJesZS5yNvoWfLDiijjZrYrwG9nPNt/XwIxbxEY jsQzXwWMdS5JLJJGym/ao8yoVLaQJMBOASIYtE7j5iXzMcKRkWj2GYBMDuSydWXTRgGE ooAdGVq7H7N4C14Y4bRAD19SbBa47cvr6xQ44OJ4dMxb6BhZG5NzGBd5PlcyjXJjgHT9 9HkQ4QIQTVl6cGYyb63F/4fbx0ouLMpx9I/xGMKfKxtNGa65N65fzGTQ1eOonGoWeBap Js56GWmtmCjV/ZqTriucCjdzBGdgDuEQt/1P+nokYfu6DGdZXuLYnFY6eVMwItb0AQvP J+zg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tKMnNf/mWT/hp2/C6E0ky/+PImdVIJ6WQH8vwzGxHo9r3ZPpsKc8/D6mQkpD2wXy792 X-Received: by 10.66.166.202 with SMTP id zi10mr11126728pab.42.1467991153720; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 08:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from raman-glaptop2 ([207.198.106.151]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id yo10sm5727590pab.4.2016.07.08.08.19.11 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 08 Jul 2016 08:19:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:40:08 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22c X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:205447 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: Not sure if this ansers your question -- but setterm -dump gives you a text file of the console contents -- with newline chars separating lines.> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > Richard recently suggested giving Emacs the ability to take a > > screenshot of itself. Could we imagine using this to run > > regression tests of the display engine? > > This makes me wonder if a Linux console has the ability to make > a textual screenshot as an array of characters. --