Re: burden of maintainance

[Helmut Eller]

On Thu, Oct 01 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Suggestions for how to improve our test suite without alienating
> potential contributors are welcome.

For a start, fix bug#16853.

Second, make it easy to run the test suite in non-batch mode as it's
impossible to test display related issues in batch mode alone.  Perhaps
use Screen or Xvfb to run the display code without physically displaying
anything.

Third, add a construct like HANDLER-BIND in Common Lisp that runs the
condition handler without unwinding the stack.  ERT rebinds `debugger'
for this purpose but IMO it's very ugly and obviously interferes with
the normal debugger.

Helmut