Re: ERT indentation testing

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:23:41 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote: 

TZ> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:37:33 +0000 Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote: 
AM> You are aware that there's an extensive test suite for CC Mode's
AM> indentation (and font locking).  It's in the tests directory of CC Mode's
AM> CVS repository, which can be downloaded from
AM> http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/.  Look for the file 000tests.el.

TZ> I didn't know that these tests existed.  Why not simply integrate them
TZ> in the Emacs tests?  Are they too specific?

TZ> A general indentation and font-locking tester is very useful, so if we
TZ> can generalize this code, it would be wonderful.

I looked at the code and it could be useful.  But it has no notion of
ERT testing and consists of very specific code to force and test
font-lock and indentation.  So it would be a lot of work to generalize
it (or parts of it) and integrate it with the GNU Emacs indentation
tests.  It may be worthwhile nevertheless.

Ted