imenu does not list paragraphs

imenu does not list paragraphs

[Matthias Pfeifer]

I used to have my init.el file divided into paragraphs by inserting
markers. I have added following code into my init.el:

  (make-local-variable 'paragraph-start)
  (make-local-variable 'paragraph-separate)
  (setq paragraph-start "^;; \\["
        paragraph-separate "^;; ]$")
  (setq-local imenu-create-index-function
'imenu-default-create-index-function) )

This way I had imenu asking me to which paragraph I want to jump whenever I
invoked it. For some reason it stopped working. I do not know where else I
can look. paragraph-start and paragraph-separate do have the intended
values. Only invoking imenu gives me not my paragraphs as options, but
defun's and defvar's.

Matthias

Re: imenu does not list paragraphs

[Alex Kost]

Matthias Pfeifer (2017-01-16 16:15 +0100) wrote:

> I used to have my init.el file divided into paragraphs by inserting
> markers. I have added following code into my init.el:
>
>   (make-local-variable 'paragraph-start)
>   (make-local-variable 'paragraph-separate)
>   (setq paragraph-start "^;; \\["
>         paragraph-separate "^;; ]$")
>   (setq-local imenu-create-index-function
> 'imenu-default-create-index-function) )
>
> This way I had imenu asking me to which paragraph I want to jump whenever I
> invoked it. For some reason it stopped working. I do not know where else I
> can look. paragraph-start and paragraph-separate do have the intended
> values. Only invoking imenu gives me not my paragraphs as options, but
> defun's and defvar's.

I don't see how that could work.  AFAIK you need to change
`imenu-generic-expression' variable.  I would do it like this:

(defun my-imenu-add-paragraphs ()
  (add-to-list 'imenu-generic-expression
               (list "Paragraphs" "^;;; \\(.+\\)$" 1)
               t))

(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'my-imenu-add-paragraphs)

Setting those local variables looks redundant to me.

-- 
Alex

Re: imenu does not list paragraphs

[Matthias Pfeifer]

I confess I was copying code from dubious source.
However it used to work.
Now it stopped working...

imenu-generic-expression works.

Thanks for the hint.

Matthias