I meant to send the following to the list, but only sent it to Raman by mistake. Note that I've not been following org development for a while now, but the following may help. A while back, org moved to a new folding mechanism which is not based on overlays. This was because of how slow overlays were for large files. Shortly after the transition, core emacs development introduced some significant improvements to overlay performance. This left org mode in a difficult position. Stick with its 'bespoke' folding technique or move back to overlay based folding. The decision (back then) was to stick with the bespoke folding mechanism until the majority of Emacs users were on versions recent enough to incorporate the improved overlay code and then switch back to overly based folding. Where this may be useful now is that a switch was introduced to allow the user to select between the old overlay based folding and the newer bespoke (and current default) implementation. So, assuming such a switch stil exists, you might be able to change org back to the overlay based folding style and get back the lost ability to search inside folded regions. Assuming things have not changed further since I was last monitoring things here.
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