On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Martyn, > > Martyn Jago <martyn.j...@btinternet.com> writes: > > > Hi > > > > Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > [...] > > > >> > >>> > >>> > And if this could be done by the user to test .emacs configuration > >>> > settings, that would be really great. > >>> > > >>> > >>> That's a good idea. Simply running the Org-mode test suite is a good > >>> way for users to test the sanity of their local config. > >>> > >> > >> Yes - I have a few times run into problems due to my configuration file > and > >> only realized it later - if there would be ab org file which I could use > to > >> test easily my configuration directly after making the changes, life > would > >> have been much easier for me. This would also be useful for questions on > the > >> mailing list and for a kind of "quality control" for published configs > on > >> the web. > > > > In terms of running all the tests in 'batch mode' i.e. loading no > > personal configuration files (for development purposes), I have put > > together a small 'test-init.el' file to do that. > > > > I just made three small changes to the testing framework so it is now > possible to run the test suite in batch mode with the following. > > emacs -Q --batch -l path/to/org/testing/org-test.el --eval "(setq > org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil)" -f org-test-run-all-tests > This sounds very promising. As I have never used a test suite (I definitely should have...), would it be possible to add a section to the manual, in the sense of "How to test your emacs configuration", or even put add a menu item into the org menu in emacs to run the test suite with the actual configuration? Rainer > > Best -- Eric > > -- > Eric Schulte > http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/ > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
