commit 91d348abfc0d7ac9b5b19cde0112de8ae4335602
author Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Sat Jul 29 20:16:03 2017 +0200
committer Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Sat Jul 29 20:16:03 2017 +0200
tree 244fb1e710724921fcb6b70b177066d46520f746
parent c6df10e5d33ffab2c392626e285317ea8241ebff

patch 8.0.0804: running tests fails when stdin is /dev/null

Problem:    Running tests fails when stdin is /dev/null. (James McCoy)
Solution:   Do not bail out from getting input if the --not-a-term argument
            was given. (closes #1460)

src/eval.c

diff --git a/src/eval.c b/src/eval.c
index 4cb3289..c35def0 100644
--- a/src/eval.c
+++ b/src/eval.c
@@ -8070,8 +8070,9 @@
     rettv->vval.v_string = NULL;
 
 #ifdef NO_CONSOLE_INPUT
-    /* While starting up, there is no place to enter text. */
-    if (no_console_input())
+    /* While starting up, there is no place to enter text. When running tests
+     * with --not-a-term we assume feedkeys() will be used. */
+    if (no_console_input() && !is_not_a_term())
 	return;
 #endif