test: update documentation for test_emacs in test/README

[notmuch] / test / emacs

diff --git a/test/emacs b/test/emacs
index 3d426453b0613bf0038c9ae022c9b0bbd5c269fb..f465e2b69d42b594abecede69694707e9e40fb52 100755 (executable)
--- a/test/emacs
+++ b/test/emacs
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-# Note: do not use `setq' for setting variables in Emacs tests because
-# it affects other tests that may run in the same Emacs instance.  Use
-# `let' instead so the scope of the changed variables is limited to a
-# single test.
-
 test_description="emacs interface"
 . test-lib.sh
 
-EXPECTED=../emacs.expected-output
+EXPECTED=$TEST_DIRECTORY/emacs.expected-output
 
 add_email_corpus
 
@@ -259,15 +254,15 @@ test_expect_equal_file OUTPUT EXPECTED
 
 test_begin_subtest "Save attachment from within emacs using notmuch-show-save-attachments"
 # save as archive to test that Emacs does not re-compress .gz
-echo ./attachment1.gz |
-test_emacs '(notmuch-show "id:cf0c4d610911171136h1713aa59w9cf9aa31f052ad0a@mail.gmail.com")
-           (notmuch-show-save-attachments)' > /dev/null 2>&1
+test_emacs '(let ((standard-input "\"attachment1.gz\""))
+             (notmuch-show "id:cf0c4d610911171136h1713aa59w9cf9aa31f052ad0a@mail.gmail.com")
+             (notmuch-show-save-attachments))' > /dev/null 2>&1
 test_expect_equal_file attachment1.gz "$EXPECTED/attachment"
 
 test_begin_subtest "Save attachment from within emacs using notmuch-show-save-part"
 # save as archive to test that Emacs does not re-compress .gz
-echo ./attachment2.gz |
-test_emacs '(notmuch-show-save-part "id:cf0c4d610911171136h1713aa59w9cf9aa31f052ad0a@mail.gmail.com" 5)' > /dev/null 2>&1
+test_emacs '(let ((standard-input "\"attachment2.gz\""))
+             (notmuch-show-save-part "id:cf0c4d610911171136h1713aa59w9cf9aa31f052ad0a@mail.gmail.com" 5))' > /dev/null 2>&1
 test_expect_equal_file attachment2.gz "$EXPECTED/attachment"
 
 test_begin_subtest "View raw message within emacs"