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

[Dave Love]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> Well, nothing else than the syntactic fontification which you conveniently
> brush aside as negligible.

I'm not brushing it aside -- I just wanted to understand the point.

> It's actually a serious since font-lock is off
> by default.  And even if it's ON, it's still a serious issue for imenu
> since fontification is only applied to text that's been displayed whereas
> imenu will sweep through the whole buffer, ...

Yes, but you could ensure the buffer is syntactified before calling it
and I haven't found it much of a problem when I call imenu.

> And of course, there still the issue of the situations where
> syntactic-fontification hasn't been done, or doesn't cover all the cases,
> or ...

I think, in general, if modes are missing syntactic fontification that
they need, it's a bug which should be fixed.