From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anselm Helbig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why emacsclient -e "(current-word nil t)" does not print ? Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:43:22 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <87hbx69s85.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> References: <87r5waa3t8.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248180057 18131 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2009 12:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:40:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 21 14:40:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MTEeH-0002vB-Rv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:40:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42885 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTEeH-0005va-89 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:40:49 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de bPaOZXds1OTBdjdLibbyTAjEwTcWS+pdGf82xqqKkTAYeuW+JnyUTiMNiv Cancel-Lock: sha1:kpJFDlb12ngCXKSXp1+K8mnI7ys= In-Reply-To: Mail-Followup-To: anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171108 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66298 Archived-At: At Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:23:44 +0800, Wang Lei wrote: > > On 7/21/09, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > > Wang Lei 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. -- Anselm Helbig mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com