GNU bug report logs - #38818
Dired: mention deleting buffers, not just windows

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Message #50 received at 38818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 38818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: Re: bug#38818: Dired: mention deleting buffers, not just windows
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 09:38:59 -0500

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> you need to use exactly the same text - same
> whitespace, everything.  The lambda form is taken,
> in effect, as text, and it looks for an exact
> textual match.

No, it's compared as a Lisp object with `equal', whitespace is not
significant.  If the lambda form is uncompiled then it's a list, if it's
compiled then it will be bytecode function object.

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