# Categories with colon cause autocomplete issues

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-with-colon-cause-autocomplete-issues/70647>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [September 23, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-with-colon-cause-autocomplete-issues/70647 "2017-09-23T19:15:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 6:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-with-colon-cause-autocomplete-issues/70647/4 "2017-09-25T06:58:25Z")

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Hmmm why are you including `:` in your category name, would it not be much simpler to call it `#org-private` then there is one less edge case to worry about.

There is a legit issue with the completion though cause `test:hamburger:` generates test:hamburger: and I incorrectly am getting the autocompleter here.

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