Re: Tests involving post-command-hook

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:50:14 -0400 Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31 July 2018 at 18:10, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Is this behavior of post-command-hook expected and if so, is using
>> run-hooks in ERT valid, i.e. is it still really testing hl-line-mode
>> behavior?
>
> Asking whether it's "really" testing seems in danger of getting
> philosophical, but you might also want to look at ert-simulate-command
> which runs those hooks (it doesn't perfectly simulate everything
> though).

Thanks, this indeed works just like calling run-hooks.  I didn't mean to
wax philosophical, just wondering whether running a hook function
explicitly in a test when it isn't automatically run as expected is
legitimate in the test environment, and given the existence of
ert-simulate-command, I conclude the answer is yes.  Thanks (once again)
for the pointer.

Steve Berman