Subject: bug#16493: 24.3.50; (setq search-invisible t) is useless, let's allow to turn visible-mode temporarily on

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 08:13:02 -0400

> I was thinking all this complication could be avoided if we just allowed
> (overlay-put OVERLAY 'invisible nil) to make text visible.

No need for that.
You can do

    (overlay-put OVERLAY 'invisible 'visible)

to get the same result without far-reaching changes to the C code.

        Stefan