"Alist of syntax table modifiers to use while in `imenu--generic-function'.
The car of the assocs may be either a character or a string and the
-cdr is a syntax description appropriate fo `modify-syntax-entry'. For
+cdr is a syntax description appropriate for `modify-syntax-entry'. For
a string, all the characters in the string get the specified syntax.
This is typically used to give word syntax to characters which