Can counsel-grep provide the search string to evil-search-next and evil-search-previous, like swiper does?

[alienbogart]

My Environment

• OS: MX Linux 18
• $ uname -r: 4.19.0-5-amd64
• dotfiles
• i3wm version 4.13
• ~/.config/i3
• GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.11) of 2019-11-19
• ~/.emacs.d
• swiper 20191114.1539
• counsel 20191118.1350

Issue

When I run swiper to search example_string, after ivy-done example_string becomes available to evil-search-next and evil-search-previous, as if I had made the search using evil-search-forward (normal state keybinding: / ) or evil-search-backward (normal state keybinding: ?): they'll search for other instances of example_string

When I do the same with counsel-grep evil-search-next and evil-search-previous are not informed, and will search for whatever string was last stored by swiper or Evil commands.

So that's my question: is it possible to make counsel-grep behave like swiper in that regard?

Thanks!

[Alexander-Shukaev]

I have the following configuration gems:

(dolist (variable '(grep-regexp-history counsel-grep-history counsel-git-grep-history evil-ex-search-history swiper-history))
  (defvaralias variable 'regexp-search-ring))

See #1914 for a related discussion.

[Alexander-Shukaev]

Another duplicate was #1939.