Re: table.el 1.6.1

[Kim F. Storm]

Tak Ota <address@hidden> writes:

> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:38:56 -0500: "Stefan Monnier" 
> <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > > So far I find one problem.  Somehow when point goes inside a table
> > > cell the table menu does not appear in the menu bar.  For this part
> > > the same code works fine under emacs-21.1.90 although command remap is
> > > missing.  Has the menu mechanism in keymap changed under 21.3?
> > 
> > I seem to remember that something was changed in that area as part
> > of the command remap thingy.  It was claimed at the time that
> > position-dependent menubar entries (i.e. menu-bar bindings in
> > `keymap' and `local-map' text properties) did not work and
> > should be taken out.
> 
> Try run the table.el under 21.1.90.  When the point enters a cell the
> table menu does appear, and disappears when point goes out.
> 
> > Are you saying that they did work ?
> 
> Yes, the position-dependent menubar entry does work under 21.1.90,
> however does not work under 21.2.50 and 20.7.

Following up on my previous note:

It just occurred to me that turning on column-number-mode actually
does force a mode-line (and menu-bar) update after every command,
so maybe the table.el code doesn't do anything special to make
this happen; if you have column-number-mode turn on, it will work.  

Tak, do you have c-n-m turned on?

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk