-PATTERNS is an alist with elements that look like this:
- (MENU-TITLE REGEXP INDEX)
-or like this:
- (MENU-TITLE REGEXP INDEX FUNCTION ARGUMENTS...)
-with zero or more ARGUMENTS. The former format creates a simple
-element in the index alist when it matches; the latter creates a
-special element of the form (INDEX-NAME POSITION-MARKER FUNCTION
-ARGUMENTS...) with FUNCTION and ARGUMENTS copied from PATTERNS.
-
-MENU-TITLE is a string used as the title for the submenu or nil
-if the entries are not nested.
-
-REGEXP is a regexp that should match a construct in the buffer
-that is to be displayed in the menu; i.e., function or variable
-definitions, etc. It contains a substring which is the name to
-appear in the menu. See the info section on Regexps for more
-information. REGEXP may also be a function, called without
-arguments. It is expected to search backwards. It shall return
-true and set `match-data' if it finds another element.
-
-INDEX points to the substring in REGEXP that contains the
-name (of the function, variable or type) that is to appear in the
-menu.
-
-The variable `imenu-case-fold-search' determines whether or not the
-regexp matches are case sensitive, and `imenu-syntax-alist' can be
-used to alter the syntax table for the search.
-
-See `lisp-imenu-generic-expression' for an example of PATTERNS.
-
-Returns an index of the current buffer as an alist. The elements in
-the alist look like: