From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 70846@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70846: Imenu flatten
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 20:17:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a5kvymof.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86cyprx9z9.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 12 May 2024 19:37:14 +0300)
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 70846@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 19:37:14 +0300
>
> >> >> >> BTW, the manual says in (info "(emacs) Imenu"):
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> You can customize the way the menus are sorted by setting the
> >> >> >> variable ‘imenu-sort-function’. By default, names are ordered as they
> >> >> >> occur in the buffer; if you want alphabetic sorting, use the symbol
> >> >> >> ‘imenu--sort-by-name’ as the value. You can also define your own
> >> >> >> comparison function by writing Lisp code.
> >> >>
> >> >> The "menus" above are pertaining only to popup menus,
> >> >> and the variable ‘imenu-sort-function’ can't be used
> >> >> to change the sorting order of Imenu completion candidates.
> >> >> Only the following customization changes this order:
> >> >>
> >> >> (add-to-list 'completion-category-overrides
> >> >> '(imenu (display-sort-function . identity)))
> >> >>
> >> >> Using this setting is especially essential for Imenu
> >> >> on a PDF document with doc-view.el to keep the order
> >> >> of chapters for the table of contents.
> >> >>
> >> >> But I have no idea how to document this customization.
> >> >
> >> > Now I'm confused: I thought the change you installed was supposed to
> >> > make sure the completion candidates are sorted using the same sort
> >> > order as determined by imenu-sort-function. If not, then what did
> >> > your change do in this matter?
> >>
> >> Completions can be sorted only by 'display-sort-function'.
> >> There is no other way to sort completions.
> >
> > Then what did the change you installed do wrt sorting of candidates?
>
> It allows the users to customize the sorting order of
> completion candidates displayed by 'imenu'.
And the only way to customize that is via add-to-list as above? IOW,
without the change you installed, even the add-to-list method would
not have worked?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-12 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-09 16:29 bug#70846: Imenu flatten Juri Linkov
2024-05-09 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-10 6:52 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-10 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-10 16:45 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-11 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-12 6:55 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-12 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-12 16:37 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-12 17:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-05-13 6:57 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-13 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-14 6:05 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-14 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-10 17:06 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-28 17:53 ` Juri Linkov
2024-05-29 18:05 ` Juri Linkov
2024-06-06 5:35 ` Yuan Fu
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