(char-length): Don't use `defun-maybe' to define it since this module may be

 installed as the XEmacs pachage which should be usable by all the XEmacs 21.x
 series.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4b11d52..629fe0b 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2003-09-05  Katsumi Yamaoka  <yamaoka@jpl.org>
+
+       * poem-xm.el (char-length): Don't use `defun-maybe' to define it
+       since this module may be installed as the XEmacs pachage which
+       should be usable by all the XEmacs 21.x series.
+
+\f
 2003-07-05  Yuuichi Teranishi  <teranisi@gohome.org>
 
        * APEL: Version 10.6 released.

diff --git a/poem-xm.el b/poem-xm.el
index 798ce14..0ad4943 100644 (file)
--- a/poem-xm.el
+++ b/poem-xm.el
@@ -68,9 +68,12 @@ but the contents viewed as characters do change.
   "Return index of character succeeding CHAR whose index is INDEX."
   `(1+ ,index))
 
-(defun-maybe char-length (char)
-  "Return indexing length of multi-byte form of CHAR."
-  1)
+(if (not (fboundp 'char-length))
+    (defalias 'char-length
+      (lambda (char)
+       "Return number of bytes a CHARACTER occupies in a string or buffer.
+It always returns 1 in XEmacs.  It is for compatibility with MULE 2.3."
+       1)))
 
 
 ;;; @ string