Recipe from "emacs -Q": 1. Eval: "(setq scroll-conservatively 101)". 2. Eval: "(custom-set-faces '(mode-line ((t (:box (:line-width 1))))))". 3. Visit the attached file and from its first line type "C-s h e l l o". --> The Isearch match should be positioned at the bottom line of the window (see step #1), but it is at the top line instead. In GNU Emacs 24.0.91.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-11-22 on MARVIN Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-2.10.1/include --ldflags -LD:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-2.10.1/lib' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ESN value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: cp1252 default enable-multibyte-characters: t -- Dani Moncayo