From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: goof in small function where??? Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:02:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87ha291zkf.fsf@web.de> References: <53CE2D32.2070502@mousecar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406023401 26111 80.91.229.3 (22 Jul 2014 10:03:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:03:21 +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 12:03:14 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 1X9Wug-0006Qf-28 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:03:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9Wuf-0001AW-NV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37612) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9WuO-0001AO-Db for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:03:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9WuA-0006AM-AG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:02:56 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58349) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9WuA-00069j-3Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 06:02:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X9Wu4-000601-TA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:02:36 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net ([94.217.127.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:02:36 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:02:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:q7OwSdQA7jdP6AVZzI/Pw3bkSpU= 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:98892 Archived-At: ken writes: > (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))) > ) This doesn't work when `kill-new' returns nil, which happens when `interprogram-cut-function' is nil (which is the default). Note that the doc of `kill-new' doesn't say anything about the return value, it can be anything. Ergo: the `and' should better be a `when'.