From: Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why emacsclient -e "(current-word nil t)" does not print ?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:43:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbx69s85.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2902.1248175432.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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.
--
Anselm Helbig
mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com
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2009-07-21 6:52 ` Why emacsclient -e "(current-word nil t)" does not print ? Anselm Helbig
2009-07-21 7:33 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-21 11:23 ` Wang Lei
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2009-07-21 11:43 ` Anselm Helbig [this message]
2009-07-21 11:52 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-21 12:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-21 11:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-21 13:01 ` Wang Lei
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[not found] ` <mailman.2906.1248181279.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-21 13:35 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-21 14:56 ` Wang Lei
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[not found] ` <mailman.2912.1248188185.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-21 15:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-22 5:14 ` Wang Lei
[not found] ` <mailman.2960.1248239652.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-22 6:19 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-07-22 6:35 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-07-22 13:27 ` Wang Lei
2009-07-21 4:31 Wang Lei
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