Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

> This buffer-match-p condition does the expected job:
>
>      (buffer-match-p '(or "\\*" (derived-mode . special-mode))
>                      (current-buffer))
>
> But this presumably equivalent one gives a “(wrong-type-argument listp
> special-mode)” error:
>
>      (buffer-match-p '(or (and "\\*")
>                           (derived-mode . special-mode))
>                      (current-buffer))

It seems to me that the issue is related to the `and' being wrapped by
an `or', specifically because of a typo in the handling of `and':