Feature feedback: partial search acceptance

I'm working on a patch to evil where searching for a word with '/' allows me to stop at a partial match. For example, given: "The wor^d I am looking for is abcd". where '^' represents point, if I type '/' 'abce', 'abc' is highlighted. When I hit RETURN or C-g I want point to go to the beginning of that partial match and not jump back to where my search started. Does this seem like a useful idea? Thanks! -deech