I am pretty sure this never existed. It’s a reasonable request, but it is quite tricky to get right when using the special characters (@ and #). Without special characters, there are only two possible results for the search: the current category or everything. With the @ character, we make a query for usernames matching the string after the @, so in many cases there will be many results:
So, for the requested behaviour, we would need to detect when the user search returns only one result and then show the contextual options (in current category / everywhere) if you are in a context. It’s certainly doable.
In the meantime you can currently combine special characters, so if you wanted to search for a string in the category Feature by user seanblue, you could type:
