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

[Miles Bader]

pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
>> When executing a command with emacsclient, you're obviously in the
>> *server* buffer. It's empty, so current-word doesn't output anything.
>
> Perhaps that depends on the version of emacs, because with 22.2.1 I
> get the current word:
>
> $ emacsclient -e '(current-word)'
> "Halley"

It's easy to see, of course:

   $ emacsclient -e '(buffer-name)'
   " *server*"

One can use `with-current-buffer' to specify what buffer to use, of course:

   $ emacsclient -e '(with-current-buffer "*scratch*" (current-word))'
   "oink"

("oink" happens to be what my cursor was on in the *scratch* buffer)

-Miles

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