Idea: show quoted from in error messages about emacs-buttercup HOT 3 CLOSED

Hello, and thanks for the idea! I have thought about this in the past, but I am quite unsure about it. For anything but :to-throw, you really want to see the evaluated value as well. You can always get the original expression by looking at the source, but you have no way of knowing the resulting value.

So you'd end up with a pretty unwieldy error message for most cases.

I agree the situation for :to-throw is not exactly good, though. Maybe #41 can improve that somehow? I'm open for ideas.

Btw, let me know if that's too much feedback in too little time! buttercup is really fun to work with, congratulations on this neat project :)

Thank you for the kind words! I'm of the opinion that it should always be ok to create issues. I might delay answering to some of them, though :-)

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To take an example, if I do: (expect (+ 1 1) :to-equal 3), then the failure message is Expected 2 to `equal' 3. What I would like to see is something more like Expected `(+ 1 1)' to `equal' 3 but it was 2 instead. That message has the original expression, the expected value, and the observed value.

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I've written some code to implement this in #93.

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