On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:20:34 -0800, Drew Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In reply to David's point about preview-latex needing to search and find the > meta-text: I agree that programs need to be able to find meta-text. The > point is to separate such meta-text from the content - or at least be _able_ > to separate/distinguish it. In most modes, at least, Info-search should not > find strings that are in meta-text (if this is not to difficult to fix).
How about a text/overlay property that says what text to use for i-searching instead of the underlying text? Then the mode itself (or whoever added the corresponding display/invisible property) could make exactly the right decision -- e.g. David would add the underlying text, but info mode could add the text shown by the display property. Something like: (overlay-put ov 'isearch-text "This is the search text") (overlay-put ov 'display (some-bit-map)) [I assume an implementation of this would be rather inefficient, because the text wouldn't be in the buffer and the regexp search primitives work directly on the buffer-gap data structures -- but I assume these cases are relatively rare, and doesn't the isearch-invisible hack have to deal with similar cases anyway?] -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
