treemacs VS emacs-buttercup

Compare treemacs vs emacs-buttercup and see what are their differences.

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treemacs emacs-buttercup
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6 days ago about 1 month ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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treemacs

Posts with mentions or reviews of treemacs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-06.

emacs-buttercup

Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-buttercup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-01.
  • Emacs is big, emacs is god, emacs makes unit tests a major PITA
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 1 Apr 2023
    ERT doesn't have much to help with this, but Buttercup has a number of facilities to help with controlling the environment around each test: https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/emacs-buttercup/
  • Emacs’s Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jul 2022
    > (For example, when trying to test things out I haven't really found a way much better than typing into scratch, selecting code and running it while staring at messages....)

    Are you talking about when you're noodling, trying to figure how things work, or actually trying to build something?

    For playing around, I found that scratch works ok, but I found a better workflow.

    I end up using a daily note in org-roam, with #begin_src elisp... I then tag the heading with :REFILE:ELISP: so I can always find it later. Basically evaluate everything inline within that org-babel block.

    When I'm building something, or driving towards a specific goal, I use buttercup [0] to write actual unit tests. If I squint, it kinda looks like TDD.

    Finally, for debugging of running elisp, take a look at edebug [1]. It's a pretty standard looking debugger (if you used something like gdb). By default emacs uses debug which is not as friendly.

    [0]: https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/emacs-buttercup

    [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ed...

  • Writing my first tests in elisp
    1 project | /r/emacs | 9 Sep 2021
    Ok, before posting this I looked up a bit and found this and this. Buttercup seems great. Links or tips from experienced developers are welcome.
  • emacs-buttercup: Behavior-Driven Emacs Lisp Testing
    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 25 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing treemacs and emacs-buttercup you can also consider the following projects:

projectile - Project Interaction Library for Emacs

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doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

straight.el - 🍀 Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker.

emacs-solaire-mode - If only certain buffers could be so grossly incandescent.

dotfiles - My dotfiles: macOS, OpenBSD, Linux. Setup: git init; git remote add github https://github.com/rollcat/dotfiles; git pull github master

emacs-minimap - A minimap sidebar for emacs

imenu-list - Emacs plugin to show the current buffer's imenu entries in a separate buffer

org-sidebar - A helpful sidebar for Org mode

sublimity - Smooth-scrolling and minimap like sublime editor

dogears.el - Never lose your place in Emacs again

consult-jump-project - Quickly jump between projects, their files and buffers with consult