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I am running emacsclient with the command:

emacsclient -t -a "" --eval "some-exp"

The emacsclient -t -a "" is a must.

The problem is, for example, if I run:

emacsclient -t -a "" --eval "nil"

when quitting emacsclient, the command line will have "nil" printed.

My question is, how to totally stop the printing of the returned value ? (in here, it's nil).

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  • Would answer that prints output to STDERR Instead be acceptable? – Melioratus Nov 29 '16 at 5:50
  • @Melioratus yes, how to achieve that? – FunkyBaby Nov 29 '16 at 6:55
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I don't really understand your concern. emacsclient's --eval/-e always eval one expression and print the result to stdout, if you don't care about the result, simply ignore it or redirect it to /dev/null. Anyway, it's easy to stop printing, you can use

(define-advice server-eval-and-print (:filter-args (args) no-print)
  (list (car args) nil))

to advice server-eval-and-print to just eval and bypass print. It should be easy to know how it works by taking a look at the function server-eval-and-print in source code.

If you don't have define-advice, which was added in Emacs 25.1, use this instead:

(defun server-eval-and-print@no-print (args)
  (list (car args) nil))

(advice-add 'server-eval-and-print :filter-args
            #'server-eval-and-print@no-print)
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  • How did you trace down to 'server-eval-and-print' from the mere fact --eval "sexp" evaluates an sexp? – FunkyBaby Nov 30 '16 at 4:52
  • btw, redirecting stdout to /dev/null will make emacsclient -t -a "" fail to launch. – FunkyBaby Nov 30 '16 at 4:53
  • @FunkyBaby Here is how server-eval-and-print do the evaluation: (eval (car (read-from-string expr))), so if you pass multiple sexp, it always the first one and ignore the rest. – xuchunyang Nov 30 '16 at 5:16
  • @FunkyBaby I assumed you only want to redirect the output of --eval/-e. I don't understand why you need use -t and --eval/-e together. the -t makes no sense when --eval/-e exists, though It's should be OK. Of course, you can't do something like emacsclient -t foo.txt > /dev/null or vi foo.txt > /dev/null. – xuchunyang Nov 30 '16 at 5:31
  • What if I just want to omit the "nil" to stdout, not anything else? – CodyChan Apr 16 '19 at 5:57

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