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From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why emacsclient -e "(current-word nil t)" does not print ?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:33:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5waa3t8.fsf@galatea.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2874.1248150680.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

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)"


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-21  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2874.1248150680.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-21  6:52 ` Why emacsclient -e "(current-word nil t)" does not print ? Anselm Helbig
2009-07-21  7:33 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-07-21 11:23   ` Wang Lei
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2902.1248175432.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-21 11:43     ` Anselm Helbig
2009-07-21 11:52       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-21 12:12         ` Miles Bader
2009-07-21 11:47     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-21 13:01       ` Wang Lei
     [not found]     ` <7cskgqjm0s.fsf@pbourguignon.informatimago.com>
     [not found]       ` <mailman.2906.1248181279.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-21 13:35         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-21 14:56           ` Wang Lei
     [not found]         ` <7ck522jh0n.fsf@pbourguignon.informatimago.com>
     [not found]           ` <mailman.2912.1248188185.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-21 15:24             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-22  5:14               ` Wang Lei
     [not found]               ` <mailman.2960.1248239652.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-22  6:19                 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-22  6:35                 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-07-22 13:27                   ` Wang Lei
2009-07-21  4:31 Wang Lei

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