From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp Question
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:25:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hagjvg6l.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1372338690045-290340.post@n5.nabble.com
drain <aeuster@gmail.com> writes:
> (defun copy-region-as-kill (beg end)
> "Save the region as if killed, but don't kill it.
> In Transient Mark mode, deactivate the mark.
> If `interprogram-cut-function' is non-nil, also save the text for a
> window
> system cut and paste."
> (interactive "r")
> (if (eq last-command 'kill-region)
> (kill-append (filter-buffer-substring beg end) (< end beg))
> (kill-new (filter-buffer-substring beg end)))
> (if transient-mark-mode
> (setq deactivate-mark t))
> nil)
>
> What is the "nil" doing at the end here? The syntax seems to be:
>
> (defun copy-region-as-kill (beg end) [...] nil)
I think the nil makes sure the function returns nil and not anything
killed in the function body or so. Its seems to be a function called
only for its side-effects, not for its return value.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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2013-06-27 15:33 ` Emacs Lisp Question Barry Margolin
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2004-01-09 16:48 ` Emacs " Paolo Gianrossi
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2003-08-22 11:17 ` Emacs LISP Question Klaus Zeitler
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