I recently started experimenting with Helm and various Helm-based plugins.  One that I like quite a bit is helm-swoop [1], which can be thought of as a combination of isearch and occur.  I'm particularly intrigued by the possibility to drop into helm-swoop from isearch [2]; this has proven quite useful for me.  However, this functionality doesn't work when I invoke search using "/", i.e. evil-search-forward.  My buffer ends up in a recursive edit state, and the search string doesn't get sent to helm-swoop function.  

Might someone here be familiar with helm-swoop and knows how to make it work with evil, or at least have suggestions about how to best debug?  If not, is it possible to just remap "/" to isearch (I still don't have a clear understanding of how evil-search-forward with isearch as a search module is different from invoking isearch via C-s)?

Thanks

--Leo

[1] https://github.com/ShingoFukuyama/helm-swoop

[2] here is the elisp from helm-swoop.el which enables this functionality:

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