Treat searches as text objects about vintage

[misfo]

Right now Vintage just uses the built-in incremental search to implement these. I don't see any way to use incremental search and have it act as a motion. We could implement a completely separate search that just uses an input widget, but that seems like a downgrade at this point...

[adelgado]

This is maybe the last feature I miss a lot from vim in Vintage mode. I find myself typing things like d/" or d/< all the time, only to be disappointed. I don't know the specifics about plugin implementation, but from what I've understood, the problem is that using Sublime's incremental search we cannot treat the search hit as a motion; is that correct?

I agree that the standard / search should be Sublime's, since it is more powerful, but is there any way we could make d/ work using another search? Would it be simple to implement? By simple, what I mean is: Is there a documented way to show an input widget, and perform a motion on an Vintage d/ event?
Alternatively, could anyone suggest another workflow that has the same end result (Deleting until a certain match)?