Hopefully uncontroversial, so I've pushed this one. 2013-03-08 Michael Sperber <mike(a)xemacs.org&gt; * imenu.el (imenu--generic-function): REGEXP may also be a search function now, as in GNU Emacs. -- Regards, Mike diff --git a/imenu.el b/imenu.el --- a/imenu.el +++ b/imenu.el ＠＠ -730,10 +730,13 ＠＠ MENU-TITLE is a string used as the title for the submenu or nil if the entries are not nested. -REGEXP is a regexp that should match a construct in the buffer that is -to be displayed in the menu; i.e., function or variable definitions, -etc. It contains a substring which is the name to appear in the -menu. See the info section on Regexps for more information. +REGEXP is a regexp that should match a construct in the buffer +that is to be displayed in the menu; i.e., function or variable +definitions, etc. It contains a substring which is the name to +appear in the menu. See the info section on Regexps for more +information. REGEXP may also be a function, called without +arguments. It is expected to search backwards. It shall return +true and set `match-data' iff it finds another element. INDEX points to the substring in REGEXP that contains the name (of the function, variable or type) that is to appear in the menu. ＠＠ -778,7 +781,9 ＠＠ (rest (nthcdr 4 pat))) ;; Go backwards for convenience of adding items in order. (goto-char (point-max)) - (while (re-search-backward regexp nil t) + (while (and (if (functionp regexp) + (funcall regexp) + (re-search-backward regexp nil t))) (imenu-progress-message prev-pos nil t) (setq beg (match-beginning index)) ;; Add this sort of submenu only when we've found an _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches