From 55f9c2136e52d8719495b6021ce7e8d64c5141fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lewis Russell <lewis6991@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:33:17 +0000
Subject: test: replace busted with local harness

Replace the busted-based Lua test runner with a repo-local harness.

The new harness runs spec files directly under `nvim -ll`, ships its own
reporter and lightweight `luassert` shim, and keeps the helper/preload
flow used by the functional and unit test suites.

Keep the file boundary model shallow and busted-like by restoring `_G`,
`package.loaded`, `package.preload`, `arg`, and the process environment
between files, without carrying extra reset APIs or custom assertion
machinery.

Update the build and test entrypoints to use the new runner, add
black-box coverage for the harness itself, and drop the bundled
busted/luacheck dependency path.

AI-assisted: Codex
---
 test/functional/lua/vim_spec.lua | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'test/functional/lua/vim_spec.lua')

diff --git a/test/functional/lua/vim_spec.lua b/test/functional/lua/vim_spec.lua
index e9a1779367..2fde79a806 100644
--- a/test/functional/lua/vim_spec.lua
+++ b/test/functional/lua/vim_spec.lua
@@ -834,6 +834,26 @@ describe('lua stdlib', function()
     )
   end)
 
+  it('vim._copy', function()
+    ok(exec_lua([[
+      local inner = { x = 1 }
+      local mt = { tag = true }
+      local a = setmetatable({ inner = inner }, mt)
+      local b = vim._copy(a)
+
+      local c = vim.empty_dict()
+      c.inner = inner
+      local d = vim._copy(c)
+
+      return b ~= a
+        and b.inner == inner
+        and getmetatable(b) == mt
+        and d ~= c
+        and d.inner == inner
+        and not vim.islist(d)
+    ]]))
+  end)
+
   it('vim.pesc', function()
     eq('foo%-bar', exec_lua([[return vim.pesc('foo-bar')]]))
     eq('foo%%%-bar', exec_lua([[return vim.pesc(vim.pesc('foo-bar'))]]))
@@ -1249,7 +1269,11 @@ describe('lua stdlib', function()
     eq(true, exec_lua [[ return vim.deep_equal({a={b=1}}, {a={b=1}}) ]])
     eq(true, exec_lua [[ return vim.deep_equal({a={b={nil}}}, {a={b={}}}) ]])
     eq(true, exec_lua [[ return vim.deep_equal({a=1, [5]=5}, {nil,nil,nil,nil,5,a=1}) ]])
-    eq(true, exec_lua [[ local shared = {}; return vim.deep_equal({ 1, shared, 1, shared }, { 1, {}, 1, {} }) ]])
+    eq(
+      true,
+      exec_lua [[ local shared = {}; return vim.deep_equal({ 1, shared, 1, shared }, { 1, {}, 1, {} }) ]]
+    )
+    -- cyclic table
     eq(true, exec_lua [[ local a,b={},{}; a[1]=a; b[1]=b; return vim.deep_equal(a, b) ]])
     eq(false, exec_lua [[ return vim.deep_equal(1, {nil,nil,nil,nil,5,a=1}) ]])
     eq(false, exec_lua [[ return vim.deep_equal(1, 3) ]])
-- 
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