From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display test suite Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:40:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83h9c1lbso.fsf@gnu.org> <577E79AA.2060208@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1467985253 3772 80.91.229.3 (8 Jul 2016 13:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 13:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit--Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 15:40:45 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 1bLW1M-0001eB-Ou for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 15:40:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45685 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLW1L-0007Pm-PB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:40:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38175) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLW0r-0007PT-D0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLW0p-0008EI-KH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:40:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLW0o-0008Ce-6G; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:40:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bLW0m-0005yv-BQ; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:40:08 -0400 In-reply-to: <577E79AA.2060208@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9?= =?utf-8?Q?ment?= Pit--Claudel on Thu, 7 Jul 2016 11:47:54 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:205428 Archived-At: [[[ 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.