Re: menu-bar-update-hook performance problems

[Kai Großjohann]

Dan Debertin <airboss@nodewarrior.org> writes:

> o How to instrument built-in functions for Edebug, so I can get a
>     backtrace and figure out what's calling 
>     (run-hooks 'menu-bar-update-hook). The documentation says that 
>     you have to re-evaluate the defun with C-u C-M-x, but I obviously 
>     can't do that with built-ins. Right?

It's much easier: put your own function on the hook that invokes
(debug).  From there you can examine the backtrace and then continue.

Hm.  OTOH, whether this simple approach works for
menu-bar-update-hook, of all places, I'm not so sure.  Invoking the
debugger changes the menu bar...
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