Re: Teach isearch to open invisible only if visible search failed?

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Hi Leo,

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all Emacsen,
>
> I use C-s/r for navigating around text a lot and I have found it slows
> me down in large text shown in outline structure in outline or org mode
> etc. So I wonder how to set up isearch so that it only opens invisible
> text when search in the visible fails.

I have no setting for isearch as i don't use it or really few (i use
only ioccur) but why not always opening all headers with `show-all' like
ioccur does?

> My attempt is like this but it doesn't work as smoothly as I'd like.
>
> (setq search-invisible nil)
> (add-hook 'isearch-update-post-hook
>           (lambda () (when (and (or (not isearch-success)
>                                     isearch-error)
>                                 ;; prevent infinite loop
>                                 (not (eq search-invisible 'open)))
>                        (setq search-invisible 'open)
>                        (isearch-search)
>                        (isearch-update))))
> (add-hook 'isearch-mode-end-hook
>           (lambda () (setq search-invisible nil)))
>
> I wonder if someone familiar with isearch can propose a better setup.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Leo
>
>
>

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