Writing Exporter Tests [was: slack syntax exporter/copier]

[Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>]

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OK, I have a minimal working example and would like to add some unit tests
to this project, largely as a way to learn more about testing in emacs/org
so that I can start writing tests for some other projects.

However... I don't really understand how to build tests in org (and in fact
I don't really understand ert much at all). Looks like the worg page is
largely a stub. Does anyone have any hints for getting started? Like,
should i be able to use ~testing/test-ox.el~ to test my exporter?

I would like to start doing a better job of developing in elisp, but I am
having trouble getting started on my own, so, once again, I appreciate any
help you cna give!

Thanks,
Matt



On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 9:02 PM Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 5:29 PM Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.homelinux.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > A while ago I asked about a slack syntax exporter.  I cpy text from org
>> to
>> > slack often enough that I spent an hour or two today writing a simple
>> one,
>> > which I put up in a  gist:
>> > https://gist.github.com/titaniumbones/c0c171e4df8a6ff5f0f564b8a655c079
>>
>> Nice, thank you!
>>
>> > If people are interested, I will be happy to package it up & put on
>> melpa
>> > or whatever (would be the first time for me).
>>
>> Yes, I think it's quite likely that I would use this sometimes, so I'd
>> love if it was conveniently available.
>>
>>
> I've put it up in a repo: https://github.com/titaniumbones/ox-slack
>
> I don't know how to add something to Melpa so that might be a while, I
> think I'm running out of personal time :-)
>
> Best wishes,
>>    Neil
>>
>>
>> > I mostly am interested in copy-paste, not in producing permanent files,
>> so
>> > I use it with this simple utility function:
>> >
>> > (defun ora-org-export-to-clipboard-as-slack ()
>> >       "Export region to FMT, and copy to the kill ring for pasting into
>> > other programs."
>> >       (interactive)
>> >       (let* ((org-export-with-toc nil)
>> >              (org-export-with-smart-quotes nil))
>> >         (kill-new (org-export-as 'slack) ))
>> >       )
>> >     (global-set-key (kbd "C-c W s")
>> 'ora-org-export-to-clipboard-as-slack)
>> >
>> > The "ora" prefix reflects its origins in an old oremacs function that I
>> use
>> > for (much more involved) HTML copy-paste:
>> > - [[
>> >
>> https://github.com/abo-abo/oremacs/commit/6c86696c0a1f66bf690e1a934683f85f04c6f34d#diff-ecff87135600df0cafffb47c303ae9c6][abo-abo's
>> > code from oremacs]]
>> > - [[
>> >
>> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/06/16/Copy-formatted-org-mode-text-from-Emacs-to-other-applications/#comment-2735698988][john's
>> > original post]]
>> >
>> >
>> > SO far it seems OK. There are doubtless still bugs so probably it would
>> be
>> > better to make a repo after all!
>>
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