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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 8686 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8686: 24.0.50;
 `re-search-backward' does not respect `search-invisible'
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:48:05 +0200

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> My impression is that `re-search-backward' and `*-forward' do not
> respect `search-invisible'.  This makes it difficult if not impossible
> to use them in code to not find matches in hidden text.  Why would this
> variable be respected only in the Isearch Lisp code?  What am I missing?

Well, `search-invisible' is documented as only applying to interactive
searches:

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search-invisible is a variable defined in ‘isearch.el’.
Its value is ‘open’

Documentation:
If t incremental search/query-replace can match hidden text.
A nil value means don’t match invisible text.

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If you want code not to match invisible text, you have to make your code
check for the visibility.  Closing.

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