Re: Why emacsclient -e "(current-word nil t)" does not print ?

[Wang Lei]

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.

Is this normal?
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__
>


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Regards
Lei