Re: Is it valid to call isearch-filter-predicate outside isearch?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> Org produces its own side effects to make isearch
>> support revealing text hidden via text properties.
>
> When your isearch-filter-predicate can't be improved to be
> usable also during query-replace, then probably you need to
> set isearch-filter-predicate in isearch-mode-hook, and remove
> afterwards in isearch-mode-end-hook.

Good point. Although I want things to work in query-replace as well.

>> It would be nice if the docstring of `isearch-filter-predicate'
>> mentioned that it might be called outside isearch-mode.
>
> isearch.el is both a core library and UI with the search commands.
> UI commands for isearch-mode are enabled by C-s, etc.
> But as a core library its functions including isearch-filter-predicate
> are used by other packages such as replace.el.

Which is not documented. I am asking this fact to be documented.

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