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authorRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1998-02-06 21:55:42 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>1998-02-06 21:55:42 +0000
commit4fb7171c1a5b6ea96f1c933b615a688016352027 (patch)
tree00669d55a688e5bb4bf0b4f00108439f728cefd3
parent7feca86e5b123de17ae015bf440813365dda2af6 (diff)
downloademacs-4fb7171c1a5b6ea96f1c933b615a688016352027.tar.gz
(imenu-generic-expression): Doc fix.
(imenu--index-alist): Doc fix. (imenu-create-index-function): Doc fix. (imenu-prev-index-position-function): Doc fix. (imenu-extract-index-name-function): Doc fix.
-rw-r--r--lisp/imenu.el28
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/imenu.el b/lisp/imenu.el
index 97c18ed494e..1e276705169 100644
--- a/lisp/imenu.el
+++ b/lisp/imenu.el
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ or like this:
(MENU-TITLE REGEXP INDEX FUNCTION ARGUMENTS...)
with zero or more ARGUMENTS. The former format creates a simple element in
the index alist when it matches; the latter creates a special element
-of the form (NAME FUNCTION NAME POSITION-MARKER ARGUMENTS...)
+of the form (NAME FUNCTION POSITION-MARKER ARGUMENTS...)
with FUNCTION and ARGUMENTS beiong copied from `imenu-generic-expression'.
MENU-TITLE is a string used as the title for the submenu or nil if the
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ It should be a function that takes no arguments and returns an index
of the current buffer as an alist.
Simple elements in the alist look like (INDEX-NAME . INDEX-POSITION).
-Special elements look like (INDEX-NAME FUNCTION ARGUMENTS...).
+Special elements look like (INDEX-NAME INDEX-POSITION FUNCTION ARGUMENTS...).
A nested sub-alist element looks like (INDEX-NAME SUB-ALIST).
The function `imenu--subalist-p' tests an element and returns t
if it is a sub-alist.
@@ -222,14 +222,21 @@ to a function that will find the next index, looking backwards in the
file.
The function should leave point at the place to be connected to the
-index and it should return nil when it doesn't find another index.")
+index and it should return nil when it doesn't find another index.
+
+This variable is local in all buffers.")
+
(make-variable-buffer-local 'imenu-prev-index-position-function)
(defvar imenu-extract-index-name-function nil
- "Function for extracting the index name.
+ "Function for extracting the index item nam, given a position.
+
+This function is called after `imenu-prev-index-position-function'
+finds a position for an index item, with point at that position.
+It should return the name for that index item.
+
+This variable is local in all buffers.")
-This function is called after the function pointed out by
-`imenu-prev-index-position-function'.")
(make-variable-buffer-local 'imenu-extract-index-name-function)
(defvar imenu-default-goto-function 'imenu-default-goto-function
@@ -391,7 +398,14 @@ The function in this variable is called when selecting a normal index-item.")
;; The latest buffer index.
;; Buffer local.
-(defvar imenu--index-alist nil)
+(defvar imenu--index-alist nil
+ "The buffer index computed for this buffer in Imenu.
+Simple elements in the alist look like (INDEX-NAME . INDEX-POSITION).
+Special elements look like (INDEX-NAME INDEX-POSITION FUNCTION ARGUMENTS...).
+A nested sub-alist element looks like (INDEX-NAME SUB-ALIST).
+
+This variable is local in all buffers, once set.")
+
(make-variable-buffer-local 'imenu--index-alist)
;; The latest buffer index used to update the menu bar menu.