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mac@die.spammer.die.dgp.toronto.edu (Maciej Kalisiak) writes:

> When I'm doing incremental search using C-s, is there some variable
> I can tweak to get Emacs to place the cursor at the *start* of the
> match, as opposed to the end, as is the default?

Here's what I use:

;;; Isearch should always put point at the start of the match.
(defadvice isearch-exit (after my-goto-match-beginning activate)
  "Go to beginning of match."
  (when isearch-forward (goto-char isearch-other-end)))