On 8 December 2023, Morgan Smith wrote:

>> Have you considered adding a "flatten" option to imenu itself?
>> That way, you could automatically get the functionality for free
>> everywhere, not just in Org mode.
>
> I have considered that but gave up with minimal investigation because it
> seemed harder then this solution.  It's possible imenu did actually have
> this functionality sometime before 1998 (see commit
> fe2908be7b09f4c765ebdaf16fe07b0a77f78ba8).

One of the things I love about Emacs is the longevity, which leads to someone 
musing about a feature that might have existed 25 (!) years ago.


Bill

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