From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Does the command loop even look at the return values of commands executed?
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 22:00:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v93s0ye9.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a6l4tlmt.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2021-08-26, at 14:51, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 07:32:36 +0200
>>
>> I am pretty sure that the command loop discards anything returned by
>> a command invoked via a keybinding or M-x, but I couldn't find anything
>> about it in the Elisp reference. Is that true? Is it documented
>> anywhere?
>
> Yes, we ignore the value returned by commands. No, it isn't
> documented, AFAICT.
Thanks!
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-26 5:32 Does the command loop even look at the return values of commands executed? Marcin Borkowski
2021-08-26 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-26 16:52 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-08-27 7:59 ` Stephen Berman
2021-08-27 8:12 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-27 9:40 ` Stephen Berman
2021-08-27 9:47 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-08-27 11:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-27 16:12 ` Drew Adams
2021-08-26 20:00 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
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