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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: add test for syntax of emacs test library\r
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+On Sun, Jan 12 2014, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\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
+\r
+This helps developers to deal with some mysteries in the test suite so LGTM.\r
+\r
+Tomi\r
+\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