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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] test-lib-emacs: re-define test_emacs() after initialization
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 09:31:49 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eecozu16.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210522152008.27059-1-tomi.ollila@iki.fi>

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> After test_emacs() has started emacs, it re-defines
> itself as just calling the started emacs.
>
> First call to test_emacs() will execute to the end of it;
> next calls will just execute the 2 lines, first clearing OUTPUT,
> second and last executing TEST_EMACSCLIENT...
>
> This simplifies away one if constructs and reduces xtrace
> output when doing test debugging with set -x.

Although I am slightly horrified to learn that bash functions can
redefine themselves, I guess I can live with this if it is useful. It's
not like checking an environment variable is such a pretty construct.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-26 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-22 15:20 [PATCH 1/2] test-lib-emacs: re-define test_emacs() after initialization Tomi Ollila
2021-06-26 12:31 ` David Bremner [this message]
2021-06-26 14:10 ` David Bremner

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