Re: how to control isearch for invisible text

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I think `occur' always makes things visible because it copies text
>> and overlays are not copied along, so the invisibility gets lost.  I
>> do think query-replace should be improved to open invisible text
>> just like isearch does.

> I agree that query-replace should show invisible text
> when a match occurs inside it.

For reveal-mode, we should just provide a "pre-redisplay-hook" run, as the
name indicates, just before doing redisplay.  That would allow reveal-mode
to do the "show invisible text" even in query-replace and this without even
changing query-replace's code.


        Stefan