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Subject: Re: search-invisible and friends
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:21:22 -0400
> 
> > But what about 'display' properties on overlay strings? do we want to
> > support that as well?
> 
> We don't need it for the `search-invisible` case because those display
> properties can only ever hide text that's not really in the buffer in
> the first place (it's an after/before string).

The proposed primitive can be used for something other than
search-invisible use cases.