imenu does not list paragraphs

[Matthias Pfeifer]

I used to have my init.el file divided into paragraphs by inserting
markers. I have added following code into my init.el:

  (make-local-variable 'paragraph-start)
  (make-local-variable 'paragraph-separate)
  (setq paragraph-start "^;; \\["
        paragraph-separate "^;; ]$")
  (setq-local imenu-create-index-function
'imenu-default-create-index-function) )

This way I had imenu asking me to which paragraph I want to jump whenever I
invoked it. For some reason it stopped working. I do not know where else I
can look. paragraph-start and paragraph-separate do have the intended
values. Only invoking imenu gives me not my paragraphs as options, but
defun's and defvar's.

Matthias