Re: imenu does not list paragraphs

[Alex Kost]

Matthias Pfeifer (2017-01-16 16:15 +0100) wrote:

> I used to have my init.el file divided into paragraphs by inserting
> markers. I have added following code into my init.el:
>
>   (make-local-variable 'paragraph-start)
>   (make-local-variable 'paragraph-separate)
>   (setq paragraph-start "^;; \\["
>         paragraph-separate "^;; ]$")
>   (setq-local imenu-create-index-function
> 'imenu-default-create-index-function) )
>
> This way I had imenu asking me to which paragraph I want to jump whenever I
> invoked it. For some reason it stopped working. I do not know where else I
> can look. paragraph-start and paragraph-separate do have the intended
> values. Only invoking imenu gives me not my paragraphs as options, but
> defun's and defvar's.

I don't see how that could work.  AFAIK you need to change
`imenu-generic-expression' variable.  I would do it like this:

(defun my-imenu-add-paragraphs ()
  (add-to-list 'imenu-generic-expression
               (list "Paragraphs" "^;;; \\(.+\\)$" 1)
               t))

(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'my-imenu-add-paragraphs)

Setting those local variables looks redundant to me.

-- 
Alex