bug#13041: 24.2; diacritic-fold-search

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:35:37 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
> CC: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>, 13041@debbugs.gnu.org, perin@panix.com, 
>  perin@acm.org
> 
>  > I don't know if it's more difficult.  After all, the primitives you
>  > need to (a) find out whether there's a display string at given buffer
>  > position, and (b) access its text, are already there, ready to be
>  > used.  Moreover, there's even a C function that searches the current
>  > buffer for a specific Lisp string, which you could use as a model for
>  > this feature.
> 
> I think that mirroring/cloning (part of) the current buffer in a special
> search buffer would be the cheapest solution.  The search buffer would
> contain the normalized text, be built only when normalization is
> needed and be rebuilt whenever a search option or the buffer text
> changes.

Maybe this is the cheapest, but it still needs the same support the
other alternatives do.