[Table-bug] Re: table.el and XEmacs

[Ville <vil...@xe...>]

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 21:09, Ville Skytt=E4 wrote:

> I've been asked to add table.el into one of the XEmacs packages, and
> having played around with it a bit in XEmacs, I see (as the notes say)
> there are some problems.
>=20
> I've worked around a couple, see the attached patch.

Oops, I forgot to include a change that was posted to
<xem...@xe...> that is supposed to fix some problems too.=20
Updated patch attached, but...

> At least one showstopper remains, let me try to describe it.
>=20
> When I have inserted a table into a buffer, I poke around and type some
> characters *into* the top border (the line with the +-----+------
> stuff), then move into a cell, and type some more.  Now, when the table
> tries to resize itself, I get (after setting debug-on-error to t):
>=20
> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-char-or-marker-p nil)
>   table--put-property(nil table-justify nil)
>   table--put-cell-justify-property(nil nil)
>   table--put-cell-property(nil)
>   table--update-cell(now)

...this problem wasn't fixed by the updated one :(

> I'd appreciate it if this could be fixed so I could continue the process
> of distributing table.el with XEmacs.  I have no idea whether it works
> this way in GNU Emacs too,  I'm using XEmacs 21.4.8.

Cheers,
--=20
\/ille Skytt=E4
ville.skytta at xemacs.org