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

[Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

On 2010-12-05 15:19 +0000, Drew Adams wrote:
>> 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.
>
> FWIW, in Isearch+ I bind a key (`C-+') to toggle invisible-text sensitivity.
> The standard user option `search-invisible' controls whether it invisible-text
> searching on or off by default.
>
> IOW, I treat this the same as case-sensitivity (or full-word search or regexp
> search or...any other search choice).
>
> Let the user control what to search while searching.  To me, this is better than
> some DWIM that tries to second guess what I want.  Why would I (a) *always* and
> (b) *only* want to search invisible text after searching visible text fails?
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IsearchPlus

Thanks for that. But since this is for my personal use, DWIM works for
in this case.

Leo