Re: Isearch setting of inhibit-point-motion-hooks too inflexible

[Stefan Monnier]

>     The following patch against emacs 21.2 will add a new variable
>     `isearch-inhibit-point-motion-hooks' and change `isearch-search' to
>     make use of it.
> 
> That would solve your problem, but since it is an all-or-nothing
> choice, we must expect that people using multiple packages will find
> that neither t nor nil gives good results for all of those packages.
> 
> I wonder if we can find a solution where a single mode
> will work with various packages.  Does someone recall why
> isearch currently wants inhibit-point-motion-hooks to be t
> if it can match in invisible text?

I think it's for intangible text (i.e. it doesn't just allow to
search in invisible text but also in invisible+intangible).
At least, the code is careful to make text tangible if it wasn't
before.


        Stefan