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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



      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-26 20:00 UTC|newest]

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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