Re: How to let C-s center the line

[Kevin Rodgers]

Timur Aydin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to advice the isearch-forward function so that when I
> search for a string and that string is found in the buffer, I want
> that line to be centered. When I hit C-s again to find the next
> instance of the string, that line should also be centered.
>
> Here is what I wrote in the scratch buffer:
>
> (defadvice isearch-forward (after my-isearch-forward-with-center activate)
>         (recenter))
>
> Then I have evaluated this, but C-s behaves exactly the same was as before...
>
> Is this the proper way of achieving my goal, or am I way off?

I don't know why this doesn't work:


(add-hook 'isearch-mode-hook 'recenter)

but this does:

(defadvice isearch-update (after recenter activate)
  (recenter))

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Kevin Rodgers