Before the change, emacs run in daemon mode without any visible
buffers. Turns out that this affects emacs behavior in some
cases. In particular, `window-end' function returns `point-max'
instead of the last visible position. That makes it hard or
impossible to implement some tests. The patch runs emacs in a
detached screen(1) session. So that it works exactly as if it
has a visible window.
Note: screen terminates when emacs exits. So the patch does not
introduce new "running processes left behind" issues.
---
test/test-lib.sh | 10 ++++++++--
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh
index 079d7db..8d7c98d 100755
--- a/test/test-lib.sh
+++ b/test/test-lib.sh
@@ -873,10 +873,16 @@ EOF
test_emacs () {
if [ -z "$EMACS_SERVER" ]; then
EMACS_SERVER="notmuch-test-suite-$$"
- "$TMP_DIRECTORY/run_emacs" \
- --daemon \
+ # start a detached screen session with an emacs server
+ screen -S "$EMACS_SERVER" -d -m "$TMP_DIRECTORY/run_emacs" \
+ --no-window-system \
--eval "(setq server-name \"$EMACS_SERVER\")" \
+ --eval '(server-start)' \
--eval "(orphan-watchdog $$)" || return
+ # wait until the emacs server is up
+ until test_emacs '()'; do
+ sleep 1
+ done
fi
emacsclient --socket-name="$EMACS_SERVER" --eval "(progn $@)"
--
1.7.5.4
