GNU bug report logs - #14021
Activation of both Semantic and EDE disables their common submenu in main emacs menu, leaving it available only in visible menu bar

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>
Cc: 14021 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14021: Activation of both Semantic and EDE disables their common submenu in main emacs menu, leaving it available only in visible menu bar
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:24:28 -0500

David Engster wrote:

>> * emacs -Q
>>
>> * M-x menu-bar-mode, so that menu-bar is disabled
>>
>> * M-x semantic-mode
>>
>> * M-x global-ede-mode
>>
>> * Now do C-Mouse 3 to open the "global menu" popup (which I didn't know
>>   existed until yesterday...)
>>
>> Look at the "Development" menu at the bottom. It might be disabled. If
>> not, try the recipe again - it seems to be a race condition.
>
> I was wrong here; there's no race condition, but it depends on the order
> of mode activation. If you *first* enable global-ede-mode and then
> semantic-mode, the Development menu will be disabled. So to be clear:
> the above recipe is false; you have to do 'M-x global-ede-mode' first,
> and then do 'M-x semantic-mode'.

I could not seem to reproduce this. Was it fixed?

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