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

[Teemu Likonen]

On 2009-07-22 13:14 (+0800), Wang Lei wrote:

> On 7/21/09, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>> Wang Lei <wanglei.198112@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Here, I wanted to say I have tried to write a external program, that
>>> gets the emacs' current word with emacsclient and send it to sdcv to
>>> search. This is part of the whole function, the rest is to get it
>>> from selection or prompt for. But now, it looks like i can not
>>> integrate the emacs-part.
>>
>> (You could, but you must know what buffer you want.)

> Actually, I don't know. I want the program can get any word in any
> application to search. In applications like browser you have to rely
> selection, but in emacs "mark" or "current-word" should be better.

How about using the selected window? Its buffer can be obtained with
Emacs client:

emacsclient -e '(with-current-buffer (window-buffer (selected-window)) 
(current-word))'