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

[Kevin Rodgers]

Maciej Kalisiak wrote:

> * Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com>:
>
> > Put this in your .emacs:
> >
> > (add-hook 'isearch-mode-end-hook
> >      (function (lambda () (goto-char (match-beginning 0)))))
>
> Ah, perfect!  Thanks.
>
> Is this approach better, or Adrian's method of using "advice"? (I have only
> limited elisp knowledge, and not much experience with advice functions)


I'm a big fan of defadvice, but I think it should only be used when there's no

other way to get the behavior you want.  If there's a hook available, use that;
and better yet, if there's a user option, use that.

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