From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: My usage of imenu is broken. Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 14:31:41 +0300 Message-ID: <867cfcua5e.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86r0dmtbk2.fsf@gnu.org> <86h6ehu6w8.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25182"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 29 13:32:37 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sCHXp-0006LZ-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 May 2024 13:32:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sCHX3-0003gK-Ds; Wed, 29 May 2024 07:31:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sCHX2-0003fx-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 May 2024 07:31:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sCHX0-0001y8-Rr; Wed, 29 May 2024 07:31:46 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=4zm06FK/diccrh4xQezSv7h7ZbDzYGXq4Vq1xCN02iw=; b=Jp+juplZELOg JTpRN71rd0/+f4b99tXDKJSWWB0RJkzBh7iXx77wUT14NnxImzg9J5gMrQ+fkLBaZi3w/T5meQL4s fZgghrtZ5id1mHq3z//5h8adpwVgKuHsHmzgNuMjO2vJyljWKuStA+MqtgBh6L5CBvGGiBSLmfNU1 hh2rJKGxCZLoXBf3YeqcRwxtQWcfE81BwM4FtODCMyUr3Czg2X2YjwG0drWdsxMEx3xlaMrFQDsqk 3gCSupmBCZATq/4cskpeXFllwFjg6nwnXgHv46QcFpRvAF3hzIZpysPOr0Grxj15RDft3xIwT4Sr7 Xi2hZtr67BmegaGwms1ZJQ==; In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Tue, 28 May 2024 20:46:48 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:319681 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 20:46:48 +0000 > Cc: Yuan Fu , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > I just now tried "M-x imenu" in c-ts-mode, and I don't see such a > > catastrophe. True, if you leave imenu-flatten at its default nil > > value, you need to choose top-level "kind" of identifiers before you > > can type the name. For C, these "kinds" are Function, Variable, and > > Struct. Once you do select one of them, Imenu prompts you again, and > > then you can type the identifiers, with completion, or type TAB to see > > all of the names. > > > This is not very different from what you are used to. > > It's different enough to me to matter. It adds boilerplate entry to > data entry, and would likely more than double the time to get to the > target function. I'm not saying here that it's bad, just that it would > be bad for me. Well, your original message sounded as if everything was completely broken and nothing worked. > > Yuan, why does c-ts-mode' Imenu support behave differently in this > > regard from CC Mode? What was the rationale for the different > > behavior? > > I'm not Yuan, but it could be a desire to support variables and structs > as well as just functions. If that's the reason, it can be handled with appropriate completion tricks, like making the "kind" be a suffix rather than prefix, or using substring completion style.