Attached is a bug fix.  Could someone please check it in?  Thank you.
This is the third time I ask.

-Tak

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:15:05 -0800: "Ota, Takaaki" <Takaaki.Ota@us-ti-xims-1.am.sony.com> wrote:

> If there is no objection to this patch could someone check it in
> please.  Thank you.
> 
> -Tak
> 
> Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:56:51 -0800: "Ota, Takaaki"
> <Takaaki.Ota@us-ti-xims-1.am.sony.com> wrote:
> 
> > Stefan kindly informed me that table.el was slowing down menu
> > operation considerably depending on buffer contents.  The attached
> > patch corrects this problem.  Thanks Stefan.
> > 
> > -Tak
> > 
> > 2005-03-08  Takaaki Ota  <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>
> > 
> > 	* textmodes/table.el (table--line-column-position): New idiom.
> > 	(table--row-column-insertion-point-p): New function to test
> > 	validity of row and column insertion operation at a location.
> > 	(table-global-menu, table-cell-menu): Use above functions for
> > 	deterministic test operation.
> > 	(table--editable-cell-p): Behave in deterministic fashion.
> > 
> > 
> > Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:27:00 -0800: "Stefan Monnier"
> > <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> > > that has been posted to gnu.emacs.help as well.
> > > 
> > > > Thank you, I'd forgotten that (haven't done it in a long time). So
> I
> > > found
> > > > the problem, and it was table.el. I had (require 'table) and
> > (require
> > > > 'emacs-wiki-table) (the latter requires table.el) in a few places.
> I
> > > have
> > > > no idea where and how table.el is causing the problem, but would
> it
> > be
> > > > possible to turn it off (I guess a hook might do it) while in
> > bibtex?
> > > > Tables are not needed in bibtex anyway.
> > > 
> > > Setting debug-on-quit and hitting C-g while the menu is being built
> > > indicates that the time is actually spent in table--find-row-column.
> > > 
> > > Looking some more at the table.el code, it seems there is a minor
> > > logic-thinko bug in it.  Can you try the patch below (it's against
> the
> > > Emacs-CVS version of table.el, so you may have to apply the patch by
> > > hand).
> > > 
> > > Tak, is my reasoning correct that `table--probe-cell' should return
> > > non-nil
> > > iff we're inside a table?
> > > 
> > > 
> > >         Stefan
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- orig/lisp/textmodes/table.el
> > > +++ mod/lisp/textmodes/table.el
> > > @@ -1025,13 +1025,13 @@
> > >        :help "Insert a text based table at point"]
> > >       ["Row" table-insert-row
> > >        :active (and (not buffer-read-only)
> > > -		   (or (table--probe-cell)
> > > +		   (and (table--probe-cell)
> > >  		       (save-excursion
> > >  			 (table--find-row-column nil t))))
> > >        :help "Insert row(s) of cells in table"]
> > >       ["Column" table-insert-column
> > >        :active (and (not buffer-read-only)
> > > -		   (or (table--probe-cell)
> > > +		   (and (table--probe-cell)
> > >  		       (save-excursion
> > >  			 (table--find-row-column 'column t))))
> > >        :help "Insert column(s) of cells in table"])
> > > @@ -1077,13 +1077,13 @@
> > >      ("Insert"
> > >       ["Row" table-insert-row
> > >        :active (and (not buffer-read-only)
> > > -		   (or (table--probe-cell)
> > > +		   (and (table--probe-cell)
> > >  		       (save-excursion
> > >  			 (table--find-row-column nil t))))
> > >        :help "Insert row(s) of cells in table"]
> > >       ["Column" table-insert-column
> > >        :active (and (not buffer-read-only)
> > > -		   (or (table--probe-cell)
> > > +		   (and (table--probe-cell)
> > >  		       (save-excursion
> > >  			 (table--find-row-column 'column t))))
> > >        :help "Insert column(s) of cells in table"])