On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Martyn,
>
> Martyn Jago <martyn.jago@btinternet.com> writes:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@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/
>
>


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