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

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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.

Indeed.  And I agree that syntax-ppss is the way to solve those problems.
But syntax-ppss does not work correctly in all modes, so I still recommend
we wait for post-21.4 to install this change and we should then provide
a way for major modes to explicitly turn on (or off) the "ignore match in
comment/string".


        Stefan