John Beckett wrote: > I'm trying to cleanup an interesting tip that automatically > manipulates the quickfix list with a QuickfixCmdPost event. > The tip sorts the list by file name and line number and omits > duplicates: > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Automatically_sort_Quickfix_list > > A custom sort function compares two items in the quickfix list > and the following code is used to determine whether the two > quickfix items have the same buffer name: > > if bufname(a:i1.bufnr) == bufname(a:i2.bufnr) > > The argument a:i1 is a quickfix item; it is a dictionary and > bufnr is a field that specifies the number of the buffer > associated with the quickfix item. See ':help getqflist()'. > > Is the following line equivalent to the code above? > > if a:i1.bufnr == a:i2.bufnr > > I do not see how two different buffers could have the same > bufname(), so just checking the buffer number seems sufficient. > I concede that this is probably not worth worrying about, it's > just my curiosity and wondering what I'm missing.
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