Re: Tests involving post-command-hook

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> I'm using ERT to test for the hl-line face property and it appears that
> in the test environment, the function hl-line-highlight is not
> automatically run from post-command-hook as it should be, although I use
> call-interactively to mimic a command invocation.  It works only if I

pre/post-command-hook is run by the command *loop*, not by call-interactively.

The command loop is the chunk of C code which does something like:

    (while t
      (let ((keys (read-key-sequence)))
        (run-hooks 'pre-command-hook)
        (call-interactively (key-binding keys))
        (run-hooks 'post-command-hook)
        (redisplay)))

We don't want call-interactively to run those hooks, because commands
may internally call call-interactively themselves.


        Stefan