Re: [Baol-hth-list] string-width error

[Brian J. Lopes]

Hmmm, well I would have to install it locally, because I don't have root
priveleges.  I was afraid that this was the problem, I'm not sure why we
use such an old version of emacs here.  Thanks for the help!

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:

> >>>>> "BJL" == Brian J Lopes <address@hidden> writes:
>
> BJL> Hey everyone,
>
> Actually I think the two of us...
>
> BJL> I have a quick question.  I'm using emacs 19.34.1, and I just upgraded to
> BJL> the current beta version of html-helper.  I was hoping to get better
> BJL> support for tables in html.  Anyway, now I'm getting the following error
> BJL> when emacs opens a web page.
>
> Table stuff hasn't changed.
>
> BJL> Loading html-helper-mode...
> BJL> File mode specification error: (void-function string-width)
>
> It's a builtin function of the latest GNU Emacs I fear.
>
> BJL> Can someone please help me with this.  I've googled it, and it seems like
> BJL> nobody else has had this problem.
>
> As a workaround you can try to put this in .emacs
>
> (defun string-width (string)
>       (string-bytes string))
>
> This  could be faulty  with multibite  characters, anyway,  that's why
> they developed string-bytes.
>
> Unless for heavy  bandwidth problems I suggest to  upgrade to Emacs 20
> (the mode  has some  problems wiht Emacs  21 when working  with server
> side scripts, i.e. jsp)
>
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