Re: changes made to lisp-mode.el no effect

[Kevin Rodgers]

Kada Situ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to add an menu item for uncommentting out region under 
> Emacs-Lisp in lisp mode. So I added the following code in lisp-mode.el 
> under my emacs installation directory (in C:\emacs\lisp\emacs-lisp to be 
> exact).
>
> ...
>     (define-key map [separator-eval] '("--"))
>     (define-key map [eval-buffer] '("Evaluate Buffer" . eval-buffer))
>     (define-key map [eval-region] '("Evaluate Region" . eval-region))
>     (define-key map [eval-sexp] '("Evaluate Last S-expression" . 
> eval-last-sexp))
>     (define-key map [separator-format] '("--"))
>         (define-key map [uncomment-region] '("Uncomment Out Region" . 
> uncomment-region));; added
>     (define-key map [comment-region] '("Comment Out Region" . 
> comment-region))
>     (define-key map [indent-region] '("Indent Region" . indent-region))
>     (define-key map [indent-line] '("Indent Line" . lisp-indent-line))
>     (put 'eval-region 'menu-enable 'mark-active)
>     (put 'comment-region 'menu-enable 'mark-active)
>     (put 'uncomment-region 'menu-enable 'mark-active) ;;added
>     (put 'indent-region 'menu-enable 'mark-active)...
>
>
> of course, I didn't forget to byte-compile the file. But the menu items 
> don't seem to be taking effect after this. Am I missing something?

In emacs -Q (featurep 'lisp-mode) returns t, meaning that lisp-mode.elc
has already been loaded (dumped in the executable, actually).

You could explicitly (re)load it in site-start.el or default.el.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA