From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: placing cursor at *start* of match in incremental search Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:12:46 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E2D7F8E.1050205@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043169471 29156 80.91.224.249 (21 Jan 2003 17:17:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:17:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18b21z-0007ZZ-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:17:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18b1zZ-0005gu-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:15:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1043169164 28045745 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109305 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5829 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5829 Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > * Greg Hill : > >> Put this in your .emacs: >> >> (add-hook 'isearch-mode-end-hook >> (function (lambda () (goto-char (match-beginning 0))))) >> > > Ah, perfect! Thanks. > > Is this approach better, or Adrian's method of using "advice"? (I have only > limited elisp knowledge, and not much experience with advice functions) I'm a big fan of defadvice, but I think it should only be used when there's no other way to get the behavior you want. If there's a hook available, use that; and better yet, if there's a user option, use that. -- Kevin Rodgers