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At 3:24 PM +0000 1/16/03, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
>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?

Put this in your .emacs:

(add-hook 'isearch-mode-end-hook
     (function (lambda () (goto-char (match-beginning 0)))))

--Greg