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

[Ittay Dror <ittay@qlusters.com>]

On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 11:47, Ittay Dror wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 08:28, Ittay Dror wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 15:58, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:58:46AM +0200, Ittay Dror wrote:
> > > > here are my 2c:
> > > > (defadvice isearch-search (after put-cursor-at-beginning last act)
> > > >   (if isearch-success (goto-char (match-beginning 0))))
> > > > 
> > > > (defadvice isearch-repeat (before put-cursor-at-end first act)
> > > >   (goto-char  (match-end 0)))
> > > > 
> > > > this will put the cursor at the start of the search *while* searching.
> > > > seems less confusing to me.
> > > 
well i found a bug there. the problem is that the match changes between
the calls to the two functions (probably the lazy highlight loop). so
here is the (very simple) fix:
(defvar isearch-match-end "Match end of current isearch" 0)

(defadvice isearch-search (after put-cursor-at-beginning last act)
  (if isearch-success
	  (progn
		(setq isearch-match-end (point))
		(goto-char (match-beginning 0))
		)))

(defadvice isearch-repeat (before put-cursor-at-end first act)
  (goto-char  isearch-match-end))

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