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I was not able to understand the documentation, but your function does what I want. Actually, I don't understand what the function does, either. For example I get the same result if I omit the (or (not)) part and simply (let (compilation-read-command prompt) ...).

B_old
– B_old

2018-03-21 14:10:29 +00:00
Commented Mar 21, 2018 at 14:10
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The first argument to or is there to check if this command was run previously.

mkcms
– mkcms

2018-03-21 14:13:13 +00:00
Commented Mar 21, 2018 at 14:13

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