From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: goof in small function where??? Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:33:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87fvhtvg19.fsf@gmail.com> References: <53CE2D32.2070502@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406025286 16927 80.91.229.3 (22 Jul 2014 10:34:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:34:46 +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 22 12:34:39 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X9XP2-0005xU-7O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:34:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9XP1-0000Bt-Nc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:34:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9XOj-0000Bl-Hl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9XOc-00085d-Jk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:34:17 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44324) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9XOc-00085W-Ds for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:34:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X9XOb-0005Z7-Pe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: from g231108246.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.108.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231108246.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:34:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 45 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231108246.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6gdgv1VdNFGT0m3pOKp9DUpTTcc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98895 Archived-At: ken writes: > The function below half works: it does put the buffer-file-name into > the kill ring, but nothing is displayed in the minibuffer. Why? And > how to fix this? > > (defun file-name-into-kill-buffer () > "Put path/filename of current buffer onto kill-ring so to paste > into an X application. Also display it in minibuffer." > (interactive) > (let ((str (buffer-file-name))) > (and str > (kill-new str) > (message "Copied filename %s to kill ring" str))) > ) Try: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defun tj/file-name-into-kill-buffer () "Put path/filename of current buffer onto kill-ring so to paste into an X application. Also display it in minibuffer." (interactive) (let ((str (buffer-file-name))) (when str (kill-new str) (message "Copied filename %s to kill ring" str)))) #+end_src #+results: : tj/file-name-into-kill-buffer #+begin_src emacs-lisp (tj/file-name-into-kill-buffer) #+end_src #+results: : Copied filename /home/tj/News/drafts/drafts/853 to kill ring I guess `kill-new` is for side-effects only and returns nil, so in your version the `message` call is never executed. -- cheers, Thorsten