Re: imenu fails in mode without comment-start-skip defined

[Stefan Monnier]

> [I once suggested a different fix for Imenu hits in comments which
> didn't fail like this, but it was vetoed.]

Can't remember what that was.

> I don't think Imenu should require `comment-start-skip' to be defined
> (or anything comment-related), but the problem is probably with
> newcomment.el.  I'd guess that `comment-beginning' should just return
> nil in, say, Fundamental mode.

It does, if you're careful to call comment-normalize-vars before.


        Stefan