bug#70846: Imenu flatten

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: 70846@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 09:05:09 +0300
> 
> >> Ok, I could add display-sort-function directly to the imenu completing-read
> >> that will depend on the value of display-sort-function.  Then there will be
> >> no need to change the manual.
> >
> > Except we should then remove the reference to "menus", right?  Because
> > if you do that, the customization of sorting order will affect both
> > the menus and the completion, right?
> 
> Indeed, this will require removing the reference to the mouse menus.
> 
> But when I tried to use imenu-sort-function for sorting the completions,
> I found a problem that makes such change impossible.
> 
> The problem is that the default value of imenu-sort-function is nil.
> This means that by default the items on the mouse menu are unsorted.
> But the completions are sorted, and we can't change this default
> behavior.  Therefore, imenu-sort-function can't define how the
> completions are sorted.  So this is just a documentation task
> that is done in this patch:

Thanks, SGTM.