From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-08-18T12:05:02+09:00
Subject: Re: IDE vs. editor

Massimiliano Mirra <list@NOSPAMchromatic-harp.com> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:57:22AM +0900, Alan Chen wrote:
> > > How do you run tests and then jump to offending lines?  I use to run
> > I've been running my unit tests from a makefile, 
> 
> Thanks to you and Alan for the tip.  A sensible approach.  But I
> wonder if any output buffer can be forced to be parsed into line
> anchors to another buffer.  Elisp wizards, hints?

Use M-x compile to run the tests, and set
compilation-error-regexp-alist to parse out the line number and file
name of the failing test. Then next-error (normally bound to ^X-` will
load the file and take you to the line in error. (This is all theory:
I've never tried parsing Test::Unit output, but I can't see a problem
doing it.)


Cheers


Dave