Re: 27.0.50: How can I test a buffer-local window-configuration-change-hook in batch mode?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> The image will have a GNU/Linux distribution of some kind, and saying
>> "make xen-tests" (or whatever) will spin up that image, pull down the
>> code, run the display tests, exit the image and report the results.
>
> What would it use as the display terminal?

Xen can open a window on your display, but it can also run without
displaying anything, I think?  Emacs (inside Xen) just sees a standard X
display of a given size.

> And how will the test suite be able to check the results against some
> expected results?

We may have to add some new primitives to give more information about
the glyph matrix back to Lisp land, but I think we already have most of
what we need.

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