From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple elisp problem with equal Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:54:51 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87pswhavj8.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114564204 6903 80.91.229.2 (27 Apr 2005 01:10:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 27 03:10:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQb3b-0002Oz-Mb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:09:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQb9Q-0004qX-UR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:15:41 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!newsfeed.cineca.it!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1114564082 02 15667 iqARr5J1PLu92i8 050427 01:08:02 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: Zq1LWwZ-Ze2lHltV8iIZFaRhNOff3QPSkmD8pqAz+ELRQ2azVns36T Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vMzhFVBHv21pHs0sFHZtvruVV4g= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130509 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26077 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26077 On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:35:42 -0700 (PDT) exits funnel wrote: > I want this: > > (equal system-type "gnu/linux") > > to evaluate to true but instead it evaluates to nil. > C-h v system-type indicates its value is "gnu/linux". `system-type' is a symbol not a string. (equal system-type 'gnu/linux) evals to t here. David