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thanks everyone for your help. 
i've got it working now.

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<3E80725F.1070305@yahoo.com>...
> John Wilde wrote:
> 
> > i had the imenu-generic-expression variable set, but still no luck.
> > i notice that no changes i make to the text-mode.el file seem to have
> > any effect.  in fact i can take it out of the directory tree and my
> > text-mode loads up just fine.  am i modifying the wrong file??
> 
> Yes.  text-mode.el is byte-compiled to text-mode.elc, which is dumped into the
> emacs executable.