ALTERNATE_EDITOR causes emacsclient to run an alternate editor if the emacs server is not ready. This can collide with intended functionality in test-lib.sh. If the ALTERNATE_EDITOR is set but empty, emacsclient runs emacs daemon and tries to connect to it. When this happens the emacs run by test-lib.sh fails to start the server and the subsequent attempts to use the server fail because the daemon started by emacsclient does not know about notmuch-test-progn. This leads to test suite failure due to time out on any emacs test. --- test/test-lib.sh | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh index 126911f..0f6a6cf 100644 --- a/test/test-lib.sh +++ b/test/test-lib.sh @@ -1152,6 +1152,7 @@ test_emacs () { rm -f OUTPUT touch OUTPUT + unset ALTERNATE_EDITOR ${TEST_EMACSCLIENT} --socket-name="$EMACS_SERVER" --eval "(notmuch-test-progn $@)" } -- 2.6.4