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  • While not exactly what you are looking for, most minibuffer aspects of Emacs offer tab completion (usually with an optional pop-up buffer of choices with an extra tab key) and typing a portion of the word to narrow down the choices and various methods to accept the choice with the enter key, or the mouse, ..... There is a brief entry in the manual discussing M-TAB for isearch-complete .... gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/… I played a few seconds with it and it didn't seem very user friendly, but perhaps you will have more patience than me. Commented May 16, 2017 at 8:01
  • See also related isearch-complete-edit ... with the same keyboard shortcut -- the former in the previous comment is when not editing the search string in the minibuffer, and the latter function is when editing the minibuffer. I spent another couple of minutes and see that the completion is only useful if the search history has been populated with a similar or same searches. Commented May 16, 2017 at 8:19