title: Getting the current search term from select2 input
body: <p>I would like to get the current search term value (even if it is not matched) from a select2 input.  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="select2-container select2-container-multi form-control" id="s2id_author"&gt;
      &lt;ul class="select2-choices"&gt;  
          &lt;li class="select2-search-field"&gt;    
              &lt;label for="s2id_autogen1" class="select2-offscreen"&gt;&lt;/label&gt;    
              &lt;input type="text" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" spellcheck="false" class="select2-input" id="s2id_autogen1" placeholder="" style="width: 34px;" aria-activedescendant="select2-result-label-2"&gt;  
          &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>