Re: moving some indentation tests

[Phillip Lord]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> Currently indentation tests seem to be in test/manual/indent.  However,
> most of these could be run automatically.  So, I'd like to move them so
> that they'll be run by the ordinary "make check".
>
> I'm thinking I would move the files to test/data and then write a new
> test that simply iterates over these files and checking that
> re-indentation works.

My own package, assess, provides good support for this kind of
functionality. In particular, you can do this:


(assess-roundtrip-indentation=
 'emacs-lisp-mode
 "
(assess-with-find-file
    \"~/.emacs\"
  (buffer-string))")
  
if you want to see what you are indenting. And, 

(assess-file-roundtrip-indentation=
  "assess.el")

if you want to use a file.

I've been planning to add this to core -- I was hoping to wait till we
have a "core ELPA" packaging sorted out, but this might be some time. If
it would be helpful for the indentation tests, I could add this.

Phil