Re: [ELPA?] Controlling Isearch from the minibuffer

[Juri Linkov]

> I'm pretty convinced that the approach of my first patch
> (`with-isearch-window' macro, etc.) is the right way to implement this
> and possibly other future features.  On the other hand, I understand
> that it would be premature to just change isearch.el in this direction
> without a deeper reflection and further testing.
>
> So it seems that providing the feature in a package would be the best
> way to proceed here.  Then we can observe which hurdles arise and make a
> more informed change to isearch.el in the future.  I just worry a bit
> this may end up being a very distant future :-).

As soon as we fix all long-standing problems, such as adding a new macro
for isearch-recursive-edit/exit-recursive-edit, and removing workarounds
from the lazy highlight, you will be able to implement the 
isearch-from-minibuffer
feature with just a few lines of code :-)