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24.0.50; `re-search-backward' does not respect `search-invisible'

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Message #29 received at 8686 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 8686 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#8686: 24.0.50;
	`re-search-backward' does not respect `search-invisible'
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:12:04 +0200

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>> > Question: What is the simplest way, from Lisp, to get the "low-level
>>> > C" search functions to optionally respect/ignore hidden text?
>>>
>>> Something like
>>>
>>> (while (and (re-search-forward blabla)
>>> (invisible-p (point)))
>>> ...)
>>>
>>> The same idea can be used with syntax-ppss to skip over
>>> matches that are inside comments/strings.
>
>> Yes, but why not have this built into the search functions themselves,
>> just as is done for isearch?
>
> Because I'd rather that the low-level functions do one thing and one
> thing well.

(Of course my suggestion with minor modes was not for the low level functions.)

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