Hello Sharon, I must have failed to grasp the subtleties of your workflow. And my explanation was surely not very friendly. I apologize for that.
If your workflow works for you this is what matters. > Sorry, but I just feel that your system is over-complicated as compared > to my simplistic way! I cannot reproduce your error right now. But I would suggest a test. If you start emacs without any configuration, on the command line > emacs -Q Then execute the code below. Does ido-goto-symbol work as you expect? #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defun ido-goto-symbol (&optional symbol-list) "Refresh imenu and jump to a place in the buffer using Ido." (interactive) (unless (featurep 'imenu) (require 'imenu nil t)) (cond ((not symbol-list) (let ((ido-mode ido-mode) (ido-enable-flex-matching (if (boundp 'ido-enable-flex-matching) ido-enable-flex-matching t)) name-and-pos symbol-names position) (unless ido-mode (ido-mode 1) (setq ido-enable-flex-matching t)) (while (progn (imenu--cleanup) (setq imenu--index-alist nil) (ido-goto-symbol (imenu--make-index-alist)) (setq selected-symbol (ido-completing-read "Symbol? " symbol-names)) (string= (car imenu--rescan-item) selected-symbol))) (unless (and (boundp 'mark-active) mark-active) (push-mark nil t nil)) (setq position (cdr (assoc selected-symbol name-and-pos))) (cond ((overlayp position) (goto-char (overlay-start position))) (t (goto-char position))))) ((listp symbol-list) (dolist (symbol symbol-list) (let (name position) (cond ((and (listp symbol) (imenu--subalist-p symbol)) (ido-goto-symbol symbol)) ((listp symbol) (setq name (car symbol)) (setq position (cdr symbol))) ((stringp symbol) (setq name symbol) (setq position (get-text-property 1 'org-imenu-marker symbol)))) (unless (or (null position) (null name) (string= (car imenu--rescan-item) name)) (add-to-list 'symbol-names name) (add-to-list 'name-and-pos (cons name position)))))))) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c i") 'ido-goto-symbol) ; or any key you see fit #+end_src Best regards, Jeremie