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is the incremental search facility that highlights matching text as characters are typed. isearch-forward and isearch-backward support searching characters, strings, and regexp.

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When searching, how to always ensure that a few lines after the highlighted word are visible?

M-x apropos-variable RET isearch.*\(hook\|function\) RET leads you to isearch-update-post-hook, which seems to be what you're looking for. So ... … (add-hook 'isearch-update-post-hook (lambda () (when (> (length isearch-string) 0) ;;or whatever (recenter))) nil t) …
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Is there any way to configure isearch-forward-regexp invert backslashes usage?

Just adapt isearch-search-fun-function: (defun isearch-extended-regexp-forward () (interactive) (let ((regexp-chars "[|{}()`=<>]") (isearch-message-prefix-add "Extended ") (isearch-search-fun-function … t) other-args))))) (isearch-forward t))) …
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