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

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>       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.
>
> I didn't want to try to figure out how to go that far.
> If someone else wants to, please go ahead.

It's just `(syntax-ppss-context (syntax-ppss))'.  That says whether
point is in a string or comment, assuming any necessary syntax
properties are installed, but it's what Stefan is arguing against.