Subject: Re: bug#22471: ert batch should print compile parsable error messages

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:39:45 +0200

[email-masked] (Phillip Lord) writes:

> Currently, when running in batch, ert prints out messages like so:
>
> Running 24 tests (2016-01-27 09:05:17+0000)
>    passed   1/24  buffer-string=
>    passed   2/24  buffer=
> ...
>    passed  22/24  sisyphus-test-with-find-file
>    passed  23/24  to-string
>    passed  24/24  with-temp-buffers
>
> Ran 24 tests, 23 results as expected, 1 unexpected (2016-01-27 09:05:18+0000)
>
> 1 unexpected results:
>    FAILED  crash-out
>
> It would be nice to add some compilation-mode parsable data to this. So,
> something like
>
>    passed   1/24  buffer-string=  (in ./test.sisyphus-test.el:22:)

I think that would look rather cluttered for the "passed" lines, but it
would indeed be helpful on the FAILED lines.

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