From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ERT indentation testing Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:48:49 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87hb87i19a.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <20110602123733.GA4208@acm.acm> <87sjrsb9ci.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307103345 18627 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2011 12:15:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:15:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 03 14:15:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QSTHx-00055u-AP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:15:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59557 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSTHw-0006MK-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:15:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48280) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSStG-0008Om-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSStE-00034a-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59903) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSStE-00034H-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QSStD-0001lz-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:50:07 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.186.102.106]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:50:07 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:50:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-186-102-106.hsd1.il.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DfjuQqvsmzogKC3zRd9MhmgZxgI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140118 Archived-At: On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:23:41 -0500 Ted Zlatanov wrote: TZ> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:37:33 +0000 Alan Mackenzie wrote: AM> You are aware that there's an extensive test suite for CC Mode's AM> indentation (and font locking). It's in the tests directory of CC Mode's AM> CVS repository, which can be downloaded from AM> http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/. Look for the file 000tests.el. TZ> I didn't know that these tests existed. Why not simply integrate them TZ> in the Emacs tests? Are they too specific? TZ> A general indentation and font-locking tester is very useful, so if we TZ> can generalize this code, it would be wonderful. I looked at the code and it could be useful. But it has no notion of ERT testing and consists of very specific code to force and test font-lock and indentation. So it would be a lot of work to generalize it (or parts of it) and integrate it with the GNU Emacs indentation tests. It may be worthwhile nevertheless. Ted