expected test failures?

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Fri Nov 20 13:44:06 CST 2009


Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:

> I'll admit I haven't looked at the test code. It's hard for me to
> imagine why it would care about the settings of my terminal.

We test the output and compare it to known-good output. That includes
the help text, which is automatically formatted to fit in your terminal.
So when Emacs exports COLUMNS, it unfortunately affects the test output.

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Martin Geisler

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