instructions for running tests about wiki.vim

[edrex]

Also, ty for your work on this. I used vimwiki for a week before I started contemplating reimplementing the core functionality without a ftplugin, so glad someone else did it first :)

[lervag]

I spent 10 minutes poking at the makefile but I can't figure out how to run the tests. I would update doc if I knew, so if you post quick instruction here i'll clean up and PR

Hah, sorry. I've been wanting to work more on this, but currently it is at a relatively immature state (testing, that is).

Also, ty for your work on this. I used vimwiki for a week before I started contemplating reimplementing the core functionality without a ftplugin, so glad someone else did it first :)

Happy to hear it! I'm still using this very actively, and I appreciate any help with improving it. The current state of wiki.vim is quite good wrt. the features I personally need, but I think there are several possible improvements to be made that I would also benefit from.

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So, to testing. For me, the following works:

cd /path/to/wiki.vim/test
make

The output is

> make
nvim -u test_journal.vim
nvim -u test_markdown.vim
nvim -u test_list.vim
nvim -u test_links.vim
nvim -u test_init.vim

Note, though, that it runs both nvim and vim. So perhaps the tests fail on your end because you don't have nvim installed?

The Makefile looks like this:

export QUIT = 1

tests := $(wildcard test_*.vim)

.PHONY: $(tests)

all: $(tests)

$(tests):
	nvim -u $@
	@vim -n -u NONE -e -s -c "source $@" 2>&1

The idea is to run all test_*.vim files, e.g. test_journal.vim, with nvim -u test_journal.vim. Since the environment variable QUIT is set to 1, the function wiki#test#quit() ensures that the script exits when it is finished.

[edrex]

I have nvim and a symlink vim -> nvim. If I comment the @vim line I get

Error detected while processing /home/eric/.vim/plugged/wiki.vim/test/init.vim:
line    6:
E117: Unknown function: wiki#test#init
Error detected while processing /home/eric/.vim/plugged/wiki.vim/test/test_init.vim:
line   12:
E117: Unknown function: wiki#test#error

and then vim comes up and must be exited for each test file.

Ah, the runtime path assumes vundle is used and I'm using plug.

Fixed in #40

[lervag]

Ok, I've updated the tests quite a bit now. I've included my suggested fix for #40 as well. The testing is now much "simpler", in the sense that it mainly relies on a simple wiki#test#assert mechanism. This is a little less verbose if things fail, but the test code becomes much simpler and I think it could be possible to make the error output more verbose by utilizing stack traces if we want.