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* Figuring out a nice workflow for unittesting with Emacs
@ 2011-04-17 22:55 Rob Renaud
  2011-04-18 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Rob Renaud @ 2011-04-17 22:55 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: help-gnu-emacs

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I am used to slightly abusing compile command to run unittests, because i
get the nice go to file:line behavior on failures.  But I am now unittesting
3 different files at different levels of abstraction and constantly
going back and forth between the tests.  When I am unittesting a single file
at a time, compile-command works beautifully.  But now I need to constantly
re-type the compile command when I want to change the test I am running.

Is there a way to add history to the compile command function?
 Alternatively, can I augment use some shell mode (which obviously has
command history) with the go to file:line behavior when I get a test
failure?

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* Re: Figuring out a nice workflow for unittesting with Emacs
  2011-04-17 22:55 Figuring out a nice workflow for unittesting with Emacs Rob Renaud
@ 2011-04-18 20:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2011-04-18 20:31 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: help-gnu-emacs

> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:55:08 -0400
> From: Rob Renaud <rrenaud@gmail.com>
> 
> Is there a way to add history to the compile command function?

"M-x compile" has its own history, granted.  You can move through it
with M-p and M-n (resp up-arrow and down-arrow), and you can serach
for commands that match a regexp with M-r.

In addition, there's "M-x recompile" that will automatically reuse the
last compile command.

Finally, you can use file-local variables to define the compile
command for each file (unit test in your case).



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