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When I do reverse incremental search, the cursor is placed at the beginning of a match for my search, and stays there as I type further characters that match. With forward search, on the other hand, the cursor moves forward as I continue to type matching letters. Is there a way to do a forward search that behaves like backward search in this respect? (To place the cursor at the beginning of a match, I first do a forward search, then do a reverse search. I'd like to avoid this, if possible.)

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I have the this in my init taken from the emacswiki to solve this:

(defun my-goto-match-beginning ()
  (when (and isearch-forward isearch-other-end)
    (goto-char isearch-other-end)))

(add-hook 'isearch-mode-end-hook 'my-goto-match-beginning)

If you leave the search, the point will jump to the beginning automatically.

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