Menu filter triggered too early

[Ralf Angeli]

While fiddling with the menu filters in AUCTeX I ran into a problem
with the filter functions being called too early, i.e. during the
execution of `easy-menu-define'.  This happens only if
`easy-menu-define' is called in a load file.  You can use the
following call for testing:

(easy-menu-define nil (current-global-map) "foo"
  '("Foo" ("Bar" :filter (lambda (ignored) (message "Hello!")))))

If you execute it in a running Emacs session, the filter function will
not be called.  But if you put the form into a file, e.g. test.el, and
start Emacs with `emacs -Q -l test.el', you should see the "Hello!"
message in the echo area or in the *Messages* buffer respectively.

I expected the filter function to be called only when the menu is
being activated.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.4)
 of 2005-04-23 on neutrino
Distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40300001
configured using `configure '--with-gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  next-error-follow-minor-mode:  Fol

Recent input:
M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading mwheel...done
(emacs -Q -l test.el)
Loading disp-table...done
Loading image...done
For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p.
Loading easymenu...done
Hello!
Loading emacsbug...done