On 2017-04-22, Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: >> From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> [...] >> I've encountered the problem that, while at least I can search for >> text smaller than a cluster, there's no indication in the window of >> where in the window the text is. > > I could imagine Emacs decomposing characters temporarily when only > part of a cluster matches the search string. Assuming this would make > sense to users of some complex scripts, that is. You are welcome to > suggest such a feature by using report-emacs-bug.
That's what I do in my emacs with combining characters, and if I had complex script support, I'd expect the same to happen there. emacs is a programmer's editor, after all :) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.