Re: My usage of imenu is broken.

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 20:46:48 +0000
> Cc: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
> 
> > 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.