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diff --git a/2021/talks/test.md b/2021/talks/test.md index 06286b7c..9165e7b6 100644 --- a/2021/talks/test.md +++ b/2021/talks/test.md @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ # Test blocks Eduardo Ochs +[[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/test-schedule)" raw="yes"]] + In this presentation I will show an idea that feels completely obvious once we see it, but that only occured to me after after using Emacs and eev as my main interface to the computer for more than 20 years. @@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ running 'dofile "foo.lua"'), and then has several tests for that class and its methods; and we can put another block with tests like that after the class Bletch, and other blocks after some functions. Eepitch allows sending these tests line by line to the Lua interpreter by -typing <f8\> on each line that we want to send, and this lets us create +typing <f8> on each line that we want to send, and this lets us create tests that are very easy to understand even without writing comments; this gives us a very quick way to document code by executable tests, that is super-great for experimental code that is still going to @@ -31,17 +33,30 @@ change a lot before running the risk of being read by other people. These multi-line comments with eepitch blocks that run an interpreter and make it load the current file are called "test blocks". The -command \`M-x eeit' inserts a test block at point, using the major mode +command `M-x eeit' inserts a test block at point, using the major mode to decide the right syntax to use for the multi-line comments and for the "dofile". We can configure the syntax of the test blocks for the -current major mode by running \`M-x find-eeit-links'; this can also be +current major mode by running `M-x find-eeit-links'; this can also be used to add support for test blocks to more languages (or, more precisely: to more major modes). Eduardo Ochs <http://angg.twu.net/emacsconf2021.html> +# Discussion +IRC nick: edrx -[[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/test-schedule)" raw="yes"]] +- I love the slide annotations! They are really nice. :-) +- Love the Racket's (module+ ...) but this test blocks are interesting too... +- looks like eev should be using eieio to me :) +- am I the only person who never heard of eev before this talk and now has a million uses for it? I've wanted this thing for ages + - You're in luck! You can check EmacsConf 2019 and 2020 for more eev goodness. + - that happens every time edrx does a talk on eev! + - <https://emacsconf.org/2019/talks/27/> +- does language support take a lot of work, or did I miss you relying on a different package that handles that? +- Cool! So this is kind of like a generic version of Python's doctests? (https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html) + - edrx: I don't think so... is it possible to run python's doctests line by line? Also, see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMo7vgkHJI#t=6m36s - we can change the tests on the fly... + +[[!inline pages="internal(2021/captions/test)" raw="yes"]] [[!inline pages="internal(2021/info/test-nav)" raw="yes"]] |