Re: line-beginning-position/line-end-position undefined

[Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>]

This is now fixed for ESS 5.3.7 (the next version).

Thank you for the notice.

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich,
for the ESS core team.

>>>>> "RS" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
>>>>>     on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:46:29 +0200 writes:

    RS> On Tue, Mar 25 2008, Kurt Hornik wrote:

    >> I see that ESS has
    >> 
    >> ;; XEmacs <= 21.4.15 needs this
    >> (if (not (fboundp 'line-beginning-position))
    >> (defalias 'line-beginning-position 'point-at-bol))
    >> 
    >> so this should do the job.  

    RS> Bad idea.  This is a recipe for trouble.  No package should define
    RS> function out of its own namespace.  Please report it as a bug to the
    RS> ESS maintainer.

    RS> ,----[ (info "(elisp)Coding Conventions") ]
    RS> |    * If a package needs to define an alias or a new function for
    RS> |      compatibility with some other version of Emacs, name it with the
    RS> |      package prefix, not with the raw name with which it occurs in the
    RS> |      other version.  Here is an example from Gnus, which provides many
    RS> |      examples of such compatibility issues.
    RS> | 
    RS> |           (defalias 'gnus-point-at-bol
    RS> |             (if (fboundp 'point-at-bol)
    RS> |                 'point-at-bol
    RS> |               'line-beginning-position))
    RS> `----

    RS> Bye, Reiner.
    RS> -- 
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