[slime-devel] Re: match-string-no-properties missing?

[Alberto Riva]

Nathan Bird wrote:
> Marco Baringer wrote:
>> Alberto Riva <ariva at ufl.edu> writes:
>>
>>  
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I recently updated to the latest slime from CVS, and now every time I
>>> do a M-. I get an emacs message that says "Symbol's function
>>> definition is void: match-string-no-properties."
>>>
>>> My emacs is XEmacs 21.4 (patch 15) (x86_64-redhat-linux, Mule). All
>>> help appreciated! Thanks,
>>>     
>>
>> using "GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0) of 2006-08-13"
>> i have the match-string-no-properties function. is this then an emacs
>> only function?
>>
>>   
> 
> XEmacs doesn't have that function

Yes, that seems to be the case. What I can't understand is why I never 
noticed this problem in XEmacs (I never use emacs) until I did a cvs 
update last week, and how can it still work on my laptop, where I have 
the same version of XEmacs and an older version of slime.el (that has 
the same call to match-string-no-properties). Anyway, thanks for the 
suggestion below.

 > I solved it for the time being by adding the following snippet
> 
> (or (fboundp 'match-string-no-properties)
>    (defun match-string-no-properties (number)
>      "Return string of text matched by last search."
>      (buffer-substring-no-properties (match-beginning number)
>                                      (match-end number))))
> 
> 
> I found somewhere on the web. It works for me. I haven't dug any further 
> to find out if it is actually a suitable replacement or whether there 
> are more errors waiting to happen.