Re: Some testing issues

[Stephen Berman]

On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 09:46:10 +0200 martin rudalics <address@hidden> wrote:

>> True, though when I step through the code in the interactive test, the
>> condition (pos-visible-in-window-p shown) is true, so recenter is not
>> called; so the question to me is why this is not the case in the batch run.
>
> ‘pos-visible-in-window-p’ is specified as
>
> DEFUN ("pos-visible-in-window-p", Fpos_visible_in_window_p,
>   ...
>   Lisp_Object in_window = Qnil;
>
>   ...
>   return in_window;
>
> so if none of the conditions it checks succeeds, it will return nil.

I see; thanks.

>> Thanks for clarifying that for me.  I guess I'll have to leave such
>> features untested, or is there an alternative?
>
> You can wrap them in a (skip-unless (display-graphic-p)) which means
> that they are allowed to fail in interactive use only.

Seems like a good idea; thanks for the pointer.

Steve Berman