From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why emacsclient -e "(current-word nil t)" does not print ? Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:52:46 +0200 Organization: Anevia SAS Message-ID: <7cocrejlrl.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> References: <87r5waa3t8.fsf@galatea.local> <87hbx69s85.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248180159 18496 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2009 12:42:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:42:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 21 14:42:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MTEfw-0003f8-AX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:42:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43876 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTEfv-0006zR-O6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:42:31 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed2-a.proxad.net!nnrp10-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F2F4Sw2AVoY2GliHHkwY0vzNQQQ= Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jul 2009 13:52:46 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.170.236.224 Original-X-Trace: 1248177166 news-2.free.fr 10224 88.170.236.224:52543 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171110 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66300 Archived-At: Anselm Helbig writes: > At Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:23:44 +0800, > Wang Lei wrote: >> >> On 7/21/09, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: >> > Wang Lei 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" -- __Pascal Bourguignon__