Re: easy-menu subtlety

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> > The last 3 lines of this code sequence in lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el:
>> >
>> >     ("Move"
>> >      ,(if (featurep 'xemacs)
>> >           (progn 
>> >             ["Beginning of function"            verilog-beg-of-defun t]
>> >             ["End of function"                  verilog-end-of-defun t]
>> >             ["Mark function"                    verilog-mark-defun t])
>> >         ["Beginning of function"                beginning-of-defun t]
>> >         ["End of function"                      end-of-defun t]
>> >         ["Mark function"                        mark-defun t])
>> 
>> That looks completely bogus to me.  The result of the evaluation of the
>> form is a single vector, with the other two just thrown away.  I think
>> the intention was to write this:
>> 
>> ("Move"
>> ,@(if (featurep 'xemacs)
>> '(["Beginning of function"		verilog-beg-of-defun t]
>> ["End of function"			verilog-end-of-defun t]
>> ["Mark function"			verilog-mark-defun t])
>> '(["Beginning of function"		beginning-of-defun t]
>> ["End of function"			end-of-defun t]
>> ["Mark function"			mark-defun t]))

> Thanks, but it doesn't work with emacs-21: "Invalid menu item in easymenu"

I don't see any good reason for it not to work.  Most likely it's some
silly detail somewhere.  This said, I'd recommend you just remove the
test and use the XEmacs side of the code, and make sure that
verilog-beg-of-defun is always defined (and make it an alias to
beginning-of-defun under Emacs).


        Stefan