(I am using Aquamacs 3.5 which is based on GNU Emacs 25.3.50.1, in case this matters.)
While searching (isearch-forward
) in a buffer it often happens that I need to see some lines before/after the matched string. It happens regularly (as shown in the screenshot below) that the matched string appears at the bottom of the buffer. In that case I was searching for [h!]
and there is not even one line showing below the matched line.
I tried to customise the variable list-matching-lines-default-context-lines
without success. In the screenshot above list-matching-lines-default-context-lines
was set to 5.
I suspect that isearch
does not pay attention to that variable.
list-matching-lines-default-context-lines is a variable defined in ‘replace.el’.
Its value is 5
Original value was 0
Documentation:
Default number of context lines included around ‘list-matching-lines’ matches.
A negative number means to include that many lines before the match.
A positive number means to include that many lines both before and after.
Is there a variable I can set to get the desired behaviour?