On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:08:59 +0100, Xavier Maillard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:45:11 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Before the change, every Emacs test ran in a separate Emacs
> > instance.  Starting Emacs many times wastes considerable time and
> > it gets worse as the test suite grows.  The patch solves this by
> > using a single Emacs server and emacsclient(1) to run multiple
> > tests.  Emacs server is started on the first test_emacs call and
> > stopped when test_done is called.  We take care not to leave
> > orphan Emacs processes behind when test is terminated by whatever
> > reason: Emacs server runs a watchdog that periodically checks
> > that the test is still running.
> > 
> > Some tests need to provide user input.  Before the change, this
> > was done using echo(1) to Emacs stdin.  This no longer works and
> > instead `standard-input' variable is set accordingly to make
> > `read' return the appropriate string.
> 
> I really like this too. 
> 
> +1
> 

Actually, these have all been pushed already, around June 2011.
See commits e4fc21e8..a854d06e.

I necrobumped this thread to keep my typo fix [1] in proper context.

Which leaves me to ponder: should these kinds of fixes be sent in reply
to the original patch (and potentially cause confusion), or would it be
better to just start a new thread?


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