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Re: Why emacsclient -e "(current-word nil t)" does not print ?


From: Anselm Helbig
Subject: Re: Why emacsclient -e "(current-word nil t)" does not print ?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:43:22 +0200

At Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:23:44 +0800,
Wang Lei <wanglei.198112@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 7/21/09, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> > Wang Lei <wanglei.198112@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Hi, all.
> >>
> >> I'm doing a piece of code. What needs get the output of
> >> emacsclient -e "(current-word nil t)"
> >>
> >> and send it to an external command. But there was NO output. I don't
> >> understand.
> >>
> >> Could someone explain that?
> >
> > That's because -e prints the result only when it's not nil.
> > Try:
> >
> >     emacsclient -e "(or (current-word nil t) :nil)"
> >
> Actually, what am i interested is the "current word", in this line,
> it's should print 't'. In emacs it does print 't'. But with
> emacsclient, nothing.

When executing a command with emacsclient, you're obviously in the
*server* buffer. It's empty, so current-word doesn't output anything.



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