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

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> writes:

> At Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:23:44 +0800,
> Wang Lei <wanglei.198112@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 7/21/09, Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>> > 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)"
>> >
>> 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.

Perhaps that depends on the version of emacs, because with 22.2.1 I
get the current word:

$ emacsclient -e '(current-word)'
"Halley"


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