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From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to debug functions depending on (current-time)?
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 00:44:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m21tg9umdo.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9p5mb1t.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:16:14 +0200")

On 15/07/2015 22:16 +0200, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a bunch of functions depending on (current-time), and I'm
> wondering how to test/debug them.  Is it safe to (temporarily) redefine
> `current-time'?  Maybe it's better to do that in a separate Emacs
> instance?  I could of course change their source code for the time of
> debugging, but this still lefts the problem of testing (esp. automatic
> testing) open.

As your code may use some builtin functions which use current-time, this
won't be reliable.

So I'd do what Pascal suggested.

Filipp



  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-15 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-15 20:16 How to debug functions depending on (current-time)? Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-15 21:44 ` Filipp Gunbin [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.6969.1436991395.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-15 20:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-15 22:23   ` Emanuel Berg

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