Re: search-invisible and friends

[Ihor Radchenko]

>> Do you mean to match text in the display replacement,
>
> No, I mean to ignore `search-invisible` on those specific chunks (but
> still only do the search on the buffer text).

FYI, I proposed similar patch earlier:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-07/msg00679.html

Best,
Ihor

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> OTOH, maybe there could be unusual circumstances where it would make
>>> sense to consider hidden text as "visible" (e.g. if the `display`
>>> property replaces the text with something that looks very much like the
>>> same text, tho maybe rendered a bit differently).
>> Do you mean to match text in the display replacement,
>
> No, I mean to ignore `search-invisible` on those specific chunks (but
> still only do the search on the buffer text).
>
>
>         Stefan