From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T16:36:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea for testing ruvi

Alexander Kellett wrote:
>>This way, a test simply becomes a block of text, something easy
>>to communicate back and forth.
> 
> interesting idea but i'm not sure of the need to
> involve vim really. the tests can be created with vim
> usage in mind but i doubt vim will be very easily 
> testable in this manner. otoh, it would be nice to 
> know that all my testcases are correct so some
> peer review on this would be really nice :)

Well, I've done it before. In the days before vim, I wrote
testcases for IBM's vi on AIX. Take a known file, apply
known commands to it, get predictable output.

vi (and vim) will read standard input and run commands
that it finds there. Long ago I used this as a kind of
poor man's macro. Plain vi was (is) not scriptable afaik.

And IMO ruvi should read stdin the same way. It *almost*
works, but it got stuck in an infinite loop on ":wq"
(probably some kind of EOF problem).


Hal