On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:49:36 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin at
gmail.com> wrote:
> > + # We cannot call 'test_emacs' in a subshell, because
> > + # the setting of EMACS_SERVER would not persist
> > + # throughout a sequence of tests, so we use a
> > + # temporary file.
> > + tmp="$TMPDIR"; if [ -z "$tmp" ]; then tmp=/tmp; fi
> > + output="$tmp/test_emacs_output.$$"
> > + test_emacs "$1" > "${output}"
> > + result=$(cat "${output}")
> > + rm -f "${output}"
>
> I wonder if there is any bash trick which can help here?
I'm not aware of one, but I'm not a bash expert.
> Another option is to start emacs server before using test_emacs in
> subshell. See emacs-subject-to-filename for an example. I think this
> is a better option than using a temporary file.
I think that's a very poor option. Forcing knowledge the breakage into
all of the users may make applying any future fix more difficult.
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