Subject: Re: bug#22295: viper-mode undo bug introduced between Nov 10 and Nov 14

From: [email-masked] (Phillip Lord)
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 13:37:00 +0100

Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:

> [email-masked] (Phillip Lord) writes:
>
>> You don't by any chance remember why viper mode appears to turns itself
>> off in noninteractive mode? Turns out to be rather painful for testing.
>
> You could embed your test code like this:
>
> (let (noninteractive)
>   (run-your-tests))

Yeah, been doing that. Ugly, though, it's not necessary.

The only reason I can think is for people who do lots of "--batch" jobs
and don't want viper to interfere. But, it shouldn't, really, and my
guess is that most people do "emacs --batch -q -l blah.el" for this use.

Phil