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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
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+Subject: [PATCH] test: add test for syntax of emacs test library\r
+Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:10:21 -0400\r
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+If there is a syntax error in the emacs test library, it causes other\r
+tests to hang or crash without a useful error message.\r
+\r
+This test could be eliminated if the error reporting for emacs tests\r
+was somehow improved.\r
+---\r
+ test/emacs | 4 ++++\r
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/test/emacs b/test/emacs\r
+index 863219d..7dc9a8e 100755\r
+--- a/test/emacs\r
++++ b/test/emacs\r
+@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ EXPECTED=$TEST_DIRECTORY/emacs.expected-output\r
+ \r
+ add_email_corpus\r
+ \r
++# syntax errors in test-lib.el cause mysterious failures\r
++test_expect_success 'Syntax of emacs test library' \\r
++ "${TEST_EMACS} -Q --batch --load $TEST_DIRECTORY/test-lib.el"\r
++\r
+ test_begin_subtest "Basic notmuch-hello view in emacs"\r
+ test_emacs '(notmuch-hello)\r
+ (test-output)'\r
+-- \r
+1.8.5.2\r
+\r