Re: [AUCTeX] word-search-* and re-search-* does not work with folding

[David Kastrup]

Martin Rud Ehmsen <address@hidden> writes:

> I think I have found a bug in AUCTeX (or emacs).
> If I have hidden some text using TeX-fold-* and I then search for some
> of the hidden text, the hidden text is temporarily displayed and the
> text found if I use any incremental search. But if I do a word-search or
> any other re-search then it does not get displayed. The text is somehow
> found, because the point is placed at the end of the hidden text.
>
> To illustrate:
>
> If i have the following in my buffer:
>
> Some text...
>
> [hidden text containing the words "foo bar"]
>
> Some more text, foo bar.
>
> If I put the point before the hidden text and do a word-search-forward
> and search for "foo bar" then the point is placed right after the
> closing "]". I.e., it does find the words in the hidden text (since it
> does not continue and find the "foo bar" later in the text).
>
> It is not all nonincremental searches that does not work, ordinary
> nonincremental search does work correctly. So far I have only discovered
> the bug using variants of re-search.
>
> Is this not a bug?

The same happens with preview-latex.  It would be my guess that
post-command-hook is not being run.

That would be considered a bug in Emacs.

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