Re: search-invisible and friends

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> It does, but I think only the code that generates the text covered by
>> display property knows that its semantics are.
>
> What do you mean by "semantics" here?  The effect of each kind of
> display property wrt hiding the covered text is known in advance.

If you have an image in the buffer, it may be something that has
meaning, or it may be decoration.  If it has meaning, it would be nice
if a blind user can search to it (for instance, if it's a button that
can be pressed, then the searchable text might be "click to execute").
If it's just decoration, then it shouldn't show up in isearch at all.

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