I’ve been read in several places about how to get emacs and autotest to play nicely together. This package runs a shell buffer just giving autotest’s output. It’s a nice way to automatically have that visual representation in the same window. It’s actually quite simple to do.
To begin with, you’ll need to download the autotest.el file and also a depencency, toggle.el. From there, I simply added the following to my .emacs file:
;; adding autotest integration (require 'toggle ) (require 'autotest)
Restart emacs, and you should be good to go. Note, I also had to add the unit-test.el file, but that wasn’t mentioned anywhere on the wiki.
Navigate in emacs to a the root folder that you want to run autotest in and you can start this mode by typing:
M-x autotest. Currently, my output is looking a little funny, I think it’s an encoding thing, but I think I can get the kinks worked out pretty soon. Also, make note that this will read the ~/.autotest file to start. A great resource on this nice piece of integration can be found on the emacs wiki.
That’s one less terminal that I’ll have going, meaning that more of my life will be spent in emacs, which is good.
