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

> 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?

Try this command: 

  emacsclient -e "(current-buffer)"

And then look at the contents of the buffer, there you will find the
answer - but not much more. 8-)

HTH, 

Anselm



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