GNU bug report logs - #32016
27.0; (elisp) `Imenu'

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32016: closed (27.0; (elisp) `Imenu')
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 09:36:01 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Your message dated Sat, 07 Jul 2018 12:35:50 +0300
with message-id <83d0vzjsll.fsf <at> gnu.org>
and subject line Re: bug#32016: 27.0; (elisp) `Imenu'
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #32016,
regarding 27.0; (elisp) `Imenu'
to be marked as done.

(If you believe you have received this mail in error, please contact
help-debbugs <at> gnu.org.)


-- 
32016: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=32016
GNU Bug Tracking System
Contact help-debbugs <at> gnu.org with problems

[Message part 2 (message/rfc822, inline)]

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.0; (elisp) `Imenu'
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:42:02 -0700 (PDT)

The description of `imenu-generic-expression' is incomplete.  It does
not specify the case where argument REGEXP is a function.

The doc string describes this use case this way:

REGEXP may also be a function, called without arguments.  It is expected
to search backwards.  It must return true and set 'match-data' if it
finds another element.

Unfortunately, the last sentence there is unclear.  The function does
not "find another element".  It finds a definition construct in the
buffer, and it sets match data for it.  It does not construct or "find"
an element of the list that is the variable value.

But this bug report is about the missing description of the
REGEXP-as-function case.

In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 3, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2018-03-21
Repository revision: e70d0c9e66d7a8609450b2889869d16aeb0363b5
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 --without-compress-install -C 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''

[Message part 3 (message/rfc822, inline)]

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 32016-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32016: 27.0; (elisp) `Imenu'
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2018 12:35:50 +0300

> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:42:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
> The description of `imenu-generic-expression' is incomplete.  It does
> not specify the case where argument REGEXP is a function.
> 
> The doc string describes this use case this way:
> 
> REGEXP may also be a function, called without arguments.  It is expected
> to search backwards.  It must return true and set 'match-data' if it
> finds another element.
> 
> Unfortunately, the last sentence there is unclear.  The function does
> not "find another element".  It finds a definition construct in the
> buffer, and it sets match data for it.  It does not construct or "find"
> an element of the list that is the variable value.

Thanks, I fixed the doc string.

> But this bug report is about the missing description of the
> REGEXP-as-function case.

What is this about?  A left-over of editing some other message?

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.