--- a/lisp/easymenu.el	Mon Aug 13 10:46:01 2007 +0200
+++ b/lisp/easymenu.el	Mon Aug 13 10:46:44 2007 +0200
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@
 ;; Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
 ;; 02111-1307, USA.
 
-;;; Synched up with: Not synched with FSF.
+;;; Synched up with: Not synched with FSF but coordinated with the FSF
+;;;                  easymenu maintor for compatability with FSF 20.4.
+;;; Please: Coordinate changes with Inge Frick <inge@nada.kth.se>
 
 ;; Commentary:
 
@@ -63,6 +65,15 @@
 ;; - Function: easy-menu-remove MENU
 ;;     Remove MENU from the current menubar.
 
+;; - Function: easy-menu-add-item
+;;     Add item or submenu to existing menu
+
+;; - Function: easy-menu-item-present-p
+;;     Locate item
+
+;; - Function: easy-menu-remove-item
+;;     Delete item from menu.
+
 ;; Emacs 19 never uses `easy-menu-add' or `easy-menu-remove', menus
 ;; automatically appear and disappear when the keymaps specified by
 ;; the MAPS argument to `easy-menu-define' are activated.
@@ -200,6 +211,50 @@
 	     (assoc (car menu) current-menubar)
 	     (delete-menu-item (list (car menu)))))))
 
+(defsubst easy-menu-normalize (menu)
+  (if (symbolp menu)
+      (symbol-value menu)
+    menu))
+
+(defun easy-menu-add-item (menu path item &optional before)
+  "At the end of the submenu of MENU with path PATH add ITEM.
+If ITEM is already present in this submenu, then this item will be changed.
+otherwise ITEM will be added at the end of the submenu, unless the optional
+argument BEFORE is present, in which case ITEM will instead be added
+before the item named BEFORE.
+MENU is either a symbol, which have earlier been used as the first
+argument in a call to `easy-menu-define', or the value of such a symbol
+i.e. a menu, or nil which stands for the current menubar.
+PATH is a list of strings for locating the submenu where ITEM is to be
+added.  If PATH is nil, MENU itself is used.  Otherwise, the first
+element should be the name of a submenu directly under MENU.  This
+submenu is then traversed recursively with the remaining elements of PATH.
+ITEM is either defined as in `easy-menu-define', a menu defined earlier
+by `easy-menu-define' or `easy-menu-create-menu' or an item returned
+from `easy-menu-item-present-p' or `easy-menu-remove-item'."
+  (add-menu-button path item before (easy-menu-normalize menu)))		   
+
+(defun easy-menu-item-present-p (menu path name)
+  "In submenu of MENU with path PATH, return true iff item NAME is present.
+MENU and PATH are defined as in `easy-menu-add-item'.
+NAME should be a string, the name of the element to be looked for.
+
+The return value can be used as as an argument to `easy-menu-add-item'."
+  (car (find-menu-item (or (easy-menu-normalize menu) current-menubar)
+		       (append path (list name)))))
+
+(defun easy-menu-remove-item (menu path name)
+  "From submenu of MENU with path PATH remove item NAME.
+MENU and PATH are defined as in `easy-menu-add-item'.
+NAME should be a string, the name of the element to be removed.
+
+The return value can be used as as an argument to `easy-menu-add-item'."
+  (delete-menu-item (append path (list name))
+		    (easy-menu-normalize menu)))
+  
+
+
+
 ;; Think up a good title for the menu.  Take the major-mode of the
 ;; buffer, strip the -mode part, convert hyphens to spaces, and
 ;; capitalize it.