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

[Kevin Rodgers]

Maciej Kalisiak wrote:

> Played around a bit with both approaches, and it seems the "defadvice" method
> is the better of the two, at least as presented so far.  The probelm with the
> hook method, as shown above, is that it breaks the behaviour of an isearch
> abortion.  Usually, on a C-g the cursor goes back to where it was when C-s was
> pressed; with the hook form above it is placed at the first character of the
> match... seems the hook is called on *all* methods of ending an isearch.  OTOH,
> the defadvice form works properly.
>
> Can the hook form be somehow coaxed to do abortion properly?


Use the source:

`C-g' is bound in isearch-mode-map to isearch-abort, which sets
isearch-success to nil before calling isearch-done, which is what runs
isearch-mode-end-hook.  So you could check isearch-success before
calling goto-char in the hook function.

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