Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>
>>> I see, but I wonder why dictionary.el directly manipulates
>>> context-menu-functions with add-hook.
>>
>> The reasoning was the following: by default, dictionary.el is not loaded,
>> so its context menu item is not used.  But when the user wants to use
>> dictionary.el and explicitly loads it, then automatically provide also
>> its context menu item.
>
> On this topic, I am not sure how good it is to do this
> automatically. One effect seems to be that context-menu-dictionary
> inserts itself at an unintended place in the menu (in my case as the
> first item, even though I'd prefer it to be further down).

It turns out the issue here is that context-menu-dictionary uses
define-key instead of define-key-after. Here is a patch to fix it: