bug#58532: 29.0.50; Support displaying imenu entries in a separate buffer

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Daniel Martín via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Severity: wishlist
>
> It'd be great if imenu supported displaying its alist of entries in a
> separate buffer.  This is particularly useful when the list of entries

Something like imenu-list in MELPA?  That should be in Emacs core.

> has many levels (for example, it is the table of contents of a PDF,
> supported in Emacs 29), because you could search for an entry very

Really?  I'm on Emacs 29, and in DocView Mode I get the following error:
imenu unavailable: "This buffer cannot use
‘imenu-default-create-index-function’".

> easily.  Right now, pressing C-s in the minibuffer only searches for
> first-level imenu entries.
>
> I suggest the new buffer would be configured in outline-mode, which is
> suited for this kind of hierarchical content.
>
>
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