Feature request: search conversion
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It would be nice to search a buffer for a symbol by its demangled name.
I agree that this would be nice. I just don’t know a good way to make it happen, which is why this is documented as a known issue. The standard non-interactive search functions like search-forward and re-search-forward are implemented in C and apparently have no provision for searching within the display text property we use to show demangled names. Interactive search commands like isearch-forward and isearch-forward-regexp then build on the non-interactive search functions, so they have the same limitation.
I don’t see any way to pull this off short of replacing re-search-forward and kin with my own implementations, presumably created from scratch in Emacs Lisp. That does not sound like a wise approach. @kastiglione, do you have any better ideas for how to do this? Do you know of any other Emacs packages that do something similar, that I could use as exemplars?
I missed the known issues, thank you for the pointer and the context here. I agree re-implementing doesn't sound wise. I don't have any better ideas, and don't know of other packages to learn from. I'll keep these questions in mind in case I come across something, or get an idea.
OK, I am going to close this and tag it wontfix for now. If you come up with a workable strategy, feel free to add a comment here and I will reopen the bug. Sorry I can’t do more for you now!