[Mew-dist 09565] Re: Error in reading mime message "char-width" undefined

[Subbarao Kambhampati]

From: Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at example.com> (**UNKNOWN CHARSET**)
Subject: Re: [Mew-dist 09539] Error in reading mime message "char-width"
 undefined
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:12:25 +0900

> From: Subbarao Kambhampati <rao at example.com>
> Subject: [Mew-dist 09539] Error in reading mime message "char-width" undefined
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:21:44 +0900
> 
> > I am running mew 1.93b38 on XEMACs 21.1 
> >
> >    Symbol's function definition is void: char-width 
> > 
> > I could not tell where this error is coming from. I had the perl, the
> > perl scripts etc installed correctly. 
> 
> This sounds really strange to me. If the char-width function is
> undefined in Emacs Lisp level, Mew 1.93b38 doesn't use it.
> 
> Please see if old Mew exist. If so, remove it and try again.
> 
> If you install Mew 1.93b38 only, please apply this patch and tell me
> wheter or not your problem is resolved.

I had removed the old mew and that was not stopping the problem. Your
patch didn't work either. However, inspired by your patch I put the
line

(defun char-width (x) (` 1))

in my .emacs (to provie a dummy char-width function) and things seem
to work fine...

thanks
Rao
[Jul  7, 1999]