bug#16853: 24.3.50; ert-run-tests-interactively difficult to abort

[Helmut Eller]

On Mon, Sep 08 2014, Andreas Röhler wrote:

>> I need to test display related code, like checking if the proper region
>> is visible; that wouldn't work in batch mode.
>
> Why not? But understand there might be some work left to write the
> related test, checks if being visible.

Try this:
 emacs -batch -eval '(message "%s" (pos-visible-in-window-p (window-start)))'

It prints nil.  Shouldn't window-start always be visible?

>   Also the *ert* buffer is
>> easier to browse than log files.
>>
>
> Get nice output here should something fail. Run this manually then...

Sure, use what works best for a given problem.  My log output is long
and full of random calls to "message".

Helmut