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

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Is this enough to do the job?  I would think so; if no comment syntax
> is defined, it assumes the line is not in a comment.

Actually, the trouble is anyway that this only takes into account
comments, not strings.  What you really want to test is whether the
position is in a string or comment (regardless of whether the mode
uses comments or string syntax).  That's why I suggested a patch using
`syntax-ppss' before.

E.g. currently in Lisp mode Imenu erroneously matches something like

"...
 (defun xx ())
...
"