if the last isearch direction is available, the following script, based on
the one from Bart Schaefer, should work in both forward and backward
isearch:

zle-isearch-exit() {
    if [[ $ISEARCHDIR -eq 1 ]]; then
        local match mbegin mend
        setopt extendedglob
        [[ -n $LASTSEARCH ]] || return 0
        : ${LBUFFER%(#b)(*)$LASTSEARCH}
        CURSOR=$mend[1]
    fi

    return 0
}
zle -N zle-isearch-exit



On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Madsen Zhang <md11235@gmail.com> wrote:

> Fantastic solution:).
>
> Bart, thank you very much!!
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sep 24,  2:26pm, md 1983 wrote:
>> }
>> } I want to upon exiting isearch mode always place the cursor in ZLE at
>> } the position as specified by the variable "isearch_start" in zsh's
>> } source code, no matter it's a forward or backward search.
>>
>> You should be able to use the special zle-isearch-exit widget and the
>> $LASTSEARCH variable to find the point in the buffer that was matched
>> by the search.  Here's a crude effort:
>>
>> zle-isearch-exit() {
>>  local match mbegin mend
>>  setopt extendedglob
>>  [[ -n $LASTSEARCH ]] || return 0
>>  : ${BUFFER#(#b)(*)$LASTSEARCH}
>>  CURSOR=$mend[1]
>>  return 0
>> }
>> zle -N zle-isearch-exit
>>
>> I agree that it would be nice to pass the search region at least to
>> zle-isearch-exit and zle-isearch-update if not to make them generally
>> available.
>>
>
>