Re: context around incremental search

[Michael Heerdegen]

Josh Stratton <strattonbrazil@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there a way to restrict the incremental search such that a selected item
> is always centered?  A lot of times I'm search for text and the item I jump
> to is at the bottom of the window and I'd like to see stuff under it.  This
> seems to happen a lot depending on how code is laid out.

As Drew said, setting `isearch-allow-scroll' non-nil will enable you to
scroll yourself without leaving isearch.

If you want automatic scrolling, consider binding `scroll-margin' to
something > 0.


Regards,

Michael.