added hidden --fake-cmdline parameter for testing command-line editing

* Supports all immediate editing commands.
  Naturally it cannot emulate arbitrary key presses since there is no
  canonic ASCII-encoding of function keys.
  Key macros are not consequently also not testable.
  The --fake-cmdline parameter is instead treated very similar to
  a key macro expansion.
* Most importantly this allows adding test cases for rubout behavior
  and bugs that are quite common.
* Added regression test cases for the last two rubout bugs.
* It's not easy to pass control codes in command line arguments in
  a portable manner, so the test cases will often use { and }.
  Control codes could be used e.g. by defining variables like
  RUBOUT=`printf '\b'`
  and referencing them with ${RUBOUT}.

4 files changed, 29 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index f967b1d..f3142e5 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -418,9 +418,6 @@ Features:
    macros. The same construct would also be useful with
    non-interactive commands as a way to store the supplied parameter
    using EU for instance.
- * Adding a secret command line option to process immediate editing
-   commands in batch mode with undo would allow us to add some
-   test cases that otherwise only occur in interactive mode.
  * Emscripten nodejs port.
    This may be a viable way to run SciTECO "cross"-platform, at least
    for evaluation... on UNIX-like systems in absence of prebuilt binaries.
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index eb3c0b4..5b3b8cf 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ teco_get_default_config_path(const gchar *program)
 static gchar *teco_eval_macro = NULL;
 static gboolean teco_mung_file = FALSE;
 static gboolean teco_mung_profile = TRUE;
+static gchar *teco_fake_cmdline = NULL;
 static gboolean teco_8bit_clean = FALSE;
 
 static gchar *
@@ -121,6 +122,9 @@ teco_process_options(gchar ***argv)
 		 "Do not mung "
 		 "$SCITECOCONFIG" G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S INI_FILE " "
 		 "even if it exists"},
+		{"fake-cmdline", 0, G_OPTION_FLAG_HIDDEN,
+		 G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &teco_fake_cmdline,
+		 "Emulate key presses in batch mode (for debugging)", "keys"},
 		{"8bit", '8', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &teco_8bit_clean,
 		 "Use ANSI encoding by default and disable automatic EOL conversion"},
 		{NULL}
@@ -437,6 +441,15 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 	 */
 	teco_machine_main_init(&teco_cmdline.machine, &local_qregs, TRUE);
 
+	if (G_UNLIKELY(teco_fake_cmdline != NULL)) {
+		if (!teco_cmdline_keypress(teco_fake_cmdline, strlen(teco_fake_cmdline), &error) &&
+		    !g_error_matches(error, TECO_ERROR, TECO_ERROR_QUIT)) {
+			teco_error_add_frame_toplevel();
+			goto error;
+		}
+		goto cleanup;
+	}
+
 	if (!teco_interface_event_loop(&error))
 		goto error;
 
diff --git a/tests/atlocal.in b/tests/atlocal.in
index 061937a..4bc0a21 100644
--- a/tests/atlocal.in
+++ b/tests/atlocal.in
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@ host=@host@
 # built.
 # Using the $BOOTSTRAP_SCITECO wouldn't make sense
 # anyway as we don't want to test some preinstalled SciTECO.
-SCITECO=@abs_top_builddir@/src/sciteco
+SCITECO="@abs_top_builddir@/src/sciteco"
+
+# For testing command-line editing:
+SCITECO_CMDLINE="@abs_top_builddir@/src/sciteco --no-profile --fake-cmdline"
 
 # Make sure that the standard library from the source package
 # is used.
-SCITECOPATH=@abs_top_srcdir@/lib
+SCITECOPATH="@abs_top_srcdir@/lib"
 
 # Glib debug options
 G_SLICE=debug-blocks
diff --git a/tests/testsuite.at b/tests/testsuite.at
index 729b3c8..aba51a5 100644
--- a/tests/testsuite.at
+++ b/tests/testsuite.at
@@ -214,6 +214,17 @@ AT_SETUP([Jump to beginning of macro])
 AT_CHECK([$SCITECO -e "%a-2\"< F< ' Qa-2\"N(0/0)'"], 0, ignore, ignore)
 AT_CLEANUP
 
+# NOTE: It would generally be possible to use control codes like ^H (8)
+# and ^W (23) for rubout as well, but this is tricky to write in a portable manner.
+# Therefore we usally use the push/pop command-line commands { and }.
+AT_SETUP([Rub out string append])
+AT_CHECK([$SCITECO_CMDLINE "@I/XXX/ H:Xa{-4D} :Qa-0\"N(0/0)'"], 0, ignore, ignore)
+AT_CLEANUP
+
+AT_SETUP([Rub out of empty forward kill])
+AT_CHECK([$SCITECO_CMDLINE "@I/F/ J @I/X/ @FK/F/{-6D} Z-2\"N(0/0)'"], 0, ignore, ignore)
+AT_CLEANUP
+
 AT_BANNER([Known Bugs])
 
 AT_SETUP([Number stack])