Re: placing cursor at *start* of match in incremental search

[Greg Hill]

At 3:24 PM +0000 1/16/03, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
> When I'm doing incremental search using C-s, is there some variable 
> I can tweak
> to get Emacs to place the cursor at the *start* of the match, as 
> opposed to the
> end, as is the default?

Put this in your .emacs:

(add-hook 'isearch-mode-end-hook
    (function (lambda () (goto-char (match-beginning 0)))))

--Greg