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Re: UI tests
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: UI tests |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:33:01 +0200 |
> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:09:32 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> One additional problem, though, is that Emacs doesn't really have a
> concept of "headless". Things like syntax highlighting in buffers just
> work different when running in batch, because Emacs assumes it's running
> on a TTY. For example, HTML generated by htmlize comes out differently
> in batch, than from a windowed Emacs, because Emacs in batch cannot
> display colour.
Most GUI APIs (like Xlib etc.) won't work without a real display and a
window (a.k.a. "frame"), so if we want a "headless" Emacs that will
work as with GUI frames, we will have to emulate all those calls. Not
for a faint at heart, I'd say.
- Re: Location of tests (again) (was Re: Makefile-help), (continued)
- Re: Location of tests (again) (was Re: Makefile-help), Przemysław Wojnowski, 2015/11/10
- Re: Location of tests (again) (was Re: Makefile-help), Phillip Lord, 2015/11/10
- Re: Location of tests (again) (was Re: Makefile-help), Przemysław Wojnowski, 2015/11/10
- Re: Location of tests (again) (was Re: Makefile-help), John Wiegley, 2015/11/10
- bikeshedding (was Re: Location of tests (again) (was Re: Makefile-help)), Stephen Leake, 2015/11/10
- Re: Location of tests (again) (was Re: Makefile-help), Phillip Lord, 2015/11/11
- UI tests, Richard Stallman, 2015/11/11
- Re: UI tests, John Wiegley, 2015/11/11
- Re: UI tests, Phillip Lord, 2015/11/12
- Re: UI tests, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/11/12
- Re: UI tests,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: UI tests, Richard Stallman, 2015/11/13
- Re: UI tests, Przemysław Wojnowski, 2015/11/16
- Re: UI tests, Richard Stallman, 2015/11/16