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

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> ATKINSON Lee writes:

> Kurt,
>   While editing an octave dot-m file i get "Symbol's function definition
> is void: line-beginning-position" whenever I attempt to put a space in a
> comment line or insert an assignment, etc.
> I am using XEmacs 21.4.19\586-pc-win32
> I feel comfortable editing emacs or XEmacs dot-el (lisp) files and
> believe there may be several variables that are undefined. The above
> should probably be aliased to point-at-bol/point-at-eol or something
> like that.
 
> Do you already have a known fix?
> Thanks for your Help!
> ________________________________________ 
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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.  Or, maybe upgrade to a more recent version
of XEmacs :-)

Don't this this is a bug report for GNU Emacs, though ...

Best
-k