RE: Speedbar Methods

[Anonymous]

At 09:08 AM 6/21/99 -0700, Bruce Seely wrote:
>Is this trade-off issue regarding regular expressions also the reason that
>variable names aren't qualified w.r.t. the method thay're in?
>

Yes. The JDE creates the imenu list by scanning the source buffer for
patterns that match regular expressions for class, method, and variable
declarations. It would get very hairy code-wise (in elisp) and
time-consuming to try also to determine the scope of the expressions.

- Paul