Hi Lars,Hitting the character identifier is just a shortcut for pressing C-s multiple times so the search string does not change at all, only the location. 

Thanks, Gideon

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Sent: יום חמישי, פברואר 25, 2016 8:10 לפ׳
Subject: Re: bug#10595: [PATCH] Conkeror like hints for incremental search
To: Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp@gmail.com>
Cc:  <10595@debbugs.gnu.org>


Gideon Stupp <gideon.stupp@gmail.com> writes:

> This patch adds Conkeror like hints to incremental-search's currently
> matched strings.
> This way it is possible to choose one of the highlighted possibilities
> without completing the search string (useful when using incremental
> search for navigation).
> The hints can be toggled on or off at any point during the search with
> isearch-toggle-hints (which is mapped to C-f by default). Note that to
> save keystrokes characters are used as hints instead of just numbers.
>
> Anyway, please review it and if there is any interest in it merge it.

So the idea is that if you hit `C-f' during the search, each match is
given a character as an identifier?  And if you then hit that character
then the isearch string changes to that ... word?

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