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(Maciej Kalisiak) wrote in message news:<slrnb2djm9.9kl.mac@mac.dgp.toronto.edu>...
> 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?

It's not clear why you want to do this, but why not just type C-r ?